Academia and nihilism: some critical perspectives.
This paper argues that nihilism is not an obsolete cultural and intellectual problem that can be safely left in the past. Nihilism involves processes that are not fully historicized. Some sense of the concept is necessary in order to understand important social selections and acts of power. Using so...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 393 - 418 |
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Sep2011
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