Word: nihilisme
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Nihilism is its own revenge after all. If you really want to say that writing plays is worthless, that the theater is a medium which only obstructs communication, that human experience cannot be displayed on a stage, you don't have to write a play to say it. You can...
WHAT are the values that Miller would have us rediscover, beneath our civilized facades? His book is itself these values. This certainly does not mean that art, as a diversion from life, will provide the missing purpose and fulfillment. The book is Miller's value because it is a portion...
Although Dr. Frankl's theory was already formulated before he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, his experiences in the concentration camps provided empirical confirmation for it. He himself, stricken with typhus fever attacks, strove to keep awake and alive by scribbling notes on scraps of paper in an attempt...
Style for Its Own Sake. The pattern of what Alberto Moravia aptly calls Hemingway's "ingenuous nihilism" was early set, but even Hemingway could not sustain himself on nada, or on bread alone. If life was a short day's journey from nothingness to nothingness, there still had...
Horse Latitudes. None of this is new. But when Miller moves from the tropics of sex into the horse latitudes of philosophy, something takes over that could hardly be matched by a whole chautauqua of oldtime New Thought charlatans but which nevertheless establishes Miller's importance-not for what...