Meaning at the End of Meaning: Nihilism, Great Nonsense, and Praxis in the Shadow of Extinction
ABSTRACT I suggest in this essay that the responses to the coronavirus pandemic by the North Atlantic elite ought to be accounted in part to the circulation of nihilism as a structure of feeling under late capitalism. I then pose the question, how ought we think of meaning and meaning making under t...
Published in: | Philosophy & Rhetoric |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2020
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0312 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/p-n-r/article-pdf/53/3/312/1221046/philrhet_53_3_312.pdf |
Summary: | ABSTRACT I suggest in this essay that the responses to the coronavirus pandemic by the North Atlantic elite ought to be accounted in part to the circulation of nihilism as a structure of feeling under late capitalism. I then pose the question, how ought we think of meaning and meaning making under the shadow of ongoing extinction? |
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