If nihilism is delirious existentialism, can existentialism be a valid cure for nihilism? Can we in fact active (pre-anti-) nihilists?

In spite of recent advances in supportive management and prevention of stroke, it is not uncommon to hear nonneurologists as well as neurologists express the opinion that "nothing can be done for a patient with a stroke." These individuals are expressing an attitude of therapeutic nihilism. The word nihilism is derived from the Latin nihil, meaning "nothing." A therapeutic nihilist is one who s...

When energy prices increased suddenly and unexpectedly in 1973-74 and 1979-80, a portion of the long-lived capital stock in U.S. manufacturing was rendered economically less valuable. In this paper we develop an analytical framework, consistent with the theory of cost and production, that provides an appealing structural interpretation of this capital revaluation phenomenon. In the spirit of a ...

Financial conspiracies today blend together antisemitic tropes and spiritual visions with ideals of political reform economic salvation. It is tempting to locate such phenomena at the periphery financial order, situating them within a delusional space beyond judicious concepts money, finance, wealth, value. But also possible take paranoid finance as an extreme, radical appropriation logic inher...

Mereological nihilism is the thesis that composite objects – objects with proper parts – do not exist. Nihilists generally paraphrase talk of composite objects F into talk of there being “x s arranged F-wise” (for example, while nihilists deny that there are tables, they concede that there are “x s arranged table-wise”). Recently several philosophers have argued that nihilism is defective insof...