Exploring Mortality, Social Facades, and Human Identity

Jon Stewart is an American philosopher and historian of philosophy. He specializes in 19th century Continental philosophy with an emphasis on the thought of Kierkegaard and Hegel. He has also worked in the field of Scandinavian Studies and has made the culture of the Danish Golden Age better known internationally. Stewart currently works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In this episode we discuss his recent book A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness

Book link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-nihilism-in-the-nineteenth-century/3250CA078409F52025B46A5CCF205792

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