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Author: Immortalist
Date: Jun 28, 2008 21:12
... greatest crisis in human history. In the 20th century, nihilistic themes--epistemological failure, value destruction, and cosmic purposelessness--have preoccupied artists, social critics, and philosophers. Mid-century, for example, the existentialists helped popularize tenets ... destructive potential. By the end of the century, existential despair as a response to nihilism ...
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