Nihilism ( or ; from the Latin, nothing ) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life.

Nihilism can also take epistemological or metaphysical / ontological forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.

Nihilism is also a characteristic that has been ascribed to time periods: for example, Jean Baudrillard and others have called postmodernity a nihilistic epoch, and some Christian theologians and figures of religious authority have asserted that postmodernity and many aspects of modernity represent a rejection of theism, and that rejection of their theistic doctrine entails nihilism.

Nihilism has many definitions and is thus used to describe philosophical positions which are arguably independent.

Nihilism of an epistemological form can be seen as an extreme form of skepticism in which all knowledge is denied.

Nihilism is often associated with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who provided a detailed diagnosis of nihilism as a widespread phenomenon of Western culture.

Nihilism is also expressed in some gangster rap, as part of a " street code ", but it is only one of many viewpoints or perspectives presented in such music.

For example the narrator of the book is steered away from Nihilism when his Nihilist house sitter kills his cat and leaves his apartment in disrepair.

* Nihilism ( Belief that nothing is real )

In Samyutta Nikaya ( SN ) 4. 400, both when asked if there was a soul, and when asked if there was no soul ( natthatta ), Gautama Buddha refused to answer Within the Mahayana tradition, the position that there is no soul is conventionally considered to be equivalent to Nihilism ( ucchedavada ).

Henry Flynt ( born 1940 in Greensboro, North Carolina ) is a philosopher, avant-garde musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art, Fluxus and Nihilism.

* Boy on a Stick and Slither was featured in the article " Nihilism is Easy: the Theory of Entropic Narrative or Webcomics and the Death of Culture " for the " Webcomics Examiner ".

* Nihilism ( Belief that nothing is real )

The criticism of this approach by other schools of thought within Buddhism, and much later by Western scholars, is that it slides into Nihilism.

* Nihilism, embodied by Pyotr Verkhovensky, is an extreme ideology that demands the destruction of the current social order.

Nihilism, in its claims to overthrow the old order, which it calls irrational and unjust, is hypocritical, because the new order shows itself to be even more irrational and unjust in its ideas and the implementation of those ideas.

Terao is known for wearing sunglasses and for his expressions of Nihilism.

While his Nietzsche and the Metaphysics ( 1984 ) and The Challenge of Nihilism ( 1986 ) concentrate mainly on Nietzsche, the On the Need of Philosophy Today: Philosophy between East and West is mainly a book about Heidegger and his reading of Nietzsche.

The company is also well known for its collections of Stray Bullets ' stories ( Innocence of Nihilism, Somewhere Out West, Other People, and Dark Days ) in large European-style hardcover editions ( and more recently in small US comic size softcover editions ).

He has also published a book titled Blurry and Disconnected: Tales of Sink-or-Swim Nihilism.

However, the Madhyamaka also rejects the tenets of Idealism, Materialism or Nihilism ; instead, the ideas of truth or existence, along with any assertions that depend upon them are limited to their function within the contexts and conventions that assert them, possibly somewhat akin to Relativism or Pragmatism.

With the popularizing of the word nihilism by Turgenev, a new Russian political movement called the Nihilism movement adopted the term.

In his Nihilism as Determined by the History of Being ( 1944 – 46 ), Heidegger tries to understand Nietzsche ’ s nihilism as trying to achieve a victory through the devaluation of the, until then, highest values.

Gallup described the album by saying, " Nihilism took over.

* Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics by Susan Ray ( Oxford ; New York: P. Lang, 2003, ISBN 3-03910-006-8 & ISBN 0-8204-6275-6 ( pbk.

Surrounded by these disciples he passionately preaches the Good News of Nihilism.

* Loy, David R., " Review of Nietzsche and Buddhism: A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities by R. G.

They saw it as a response to the existential void and Nihilism caused by modernity, mass society and the rise of a bureaucratic state, and in political religions " the rebellion against the religion of God " reached its climax.

After being encouraged by them, he made some songs available to the public in his album Anton Gustafsson tolkar Iron Maiden, which was distributed under Lunacy and Nihilism record labels.

* ( 1991 ) The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture, Translated by John R. Snyder, Polity Press, 1991 Translation of La fine della modernità, Garzanti, Milan, 1985

* ( 2004 ) Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics and Law, Edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press, 2004

(" Nihilism Is Liberation "), American black metal band

The US American occupational forces revoked their printing license in April 1947 on the grounds of extensive Nihilism.

In the 1860s a movement known as Nihilism developed in Russia.

Three of the antagonists in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski are explicitly described as " nihilists ;" and the 1999 film The Matrix portrays the character Thomas A. Anderson with a hollowed out copy of Baudrillard's treatise, Simulacra and Simulation, in which he stores contraband data files under the chapter " On Nihilism.

* Carr, Karen ( 1992 ), The Banalisation of Nihilism, State University of New York Press.

* Cunningham, Conor ( 2002 ), Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing & the Difference of Theology, New York, NY: Routledge.

* Fraser, John ( 2001 ), " Nihilism, Modernisn and Value ", retrieved at December 2, 2009.

* Gillespie, Michael Allen ( 1996 ), Nihilism Before Nietzsche, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

* Harper, Douglas, " Nihilism ", in: Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved at December 2, 2009.

* Hibbs, Thomas S. ( 2000 ), Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from The Exorcist to Seinfeld, Dallas, TX: Spence Publishing Company.

* Löwith, Karl ( 1995 ), Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism, New York, NY: Columbia UP.

* Marmysz, John ( 2003 ), Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism, Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

* Parvez Manzoor, S. ( 2003 ), " Modernity and Nihilism.

Seraphim ( 1995 ), Nihilism, The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, Forestville, CA: Fr.