If you're feeling empty, you might relate to nihilism, the philosophy that life is meaningless. However, it's easy to confuse ...

Nihilism doesn't have a great reputation. It's associated with existential dread, immorality and Nazis. But writer and journalist Wendy Syfret says the philosophy can also lead to a happy, positive, ...

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David Bryant argues for an optimistic view of life (Face to faith, July 14). He takes as his target the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he accuses of having "demolished just about every ethical and ...

If the same poll were taken today, however, it is difficult to imagine that Roth would not finish right at the top, because something happened to him in the mid-1990s, something unprecedented in ...

Roger Caillois, possibly one of the most well-known theorists of human games and play, famously wrote that “play is ruined by the nihilist” in his book Man, Play, Games (1961). What he was getting at, ...