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Does the last man hate work?
Does the last man hate work? This probably strikes the site as a facile question, but Zarathustra does seem to end with beginning his work, and the last man has lost the capacity to hate himself (that'...
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What does Baudrillard propose to do with realization of Simulacra?
There's literally the quote on the wiki page on Simulacra and Simulation:
..The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the
truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is ...
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Does postmodernism entail nihilism?
Postmodernism characterizes mainly as the view that there's no objective truth, no objective moral values, and that logic and reason are socially constructed concepts. These seem to me to be ...
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How come nihilism is so popular today?
I've been trying to attack this question (or more precisely, come up with an answer to that fact) for some time now, but after a while of research I'm suddenly not so sure of the reason the situation ...