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100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism

New Books in Buddhist Studies

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Nihilism and Buddhism

Nihilism as I'm understanding it in my engagement with Nietzsche. His thought is anti-foundationalist through and through, but his talk about nihilism really is very, very interesting. He says things like nihilism is that we're weary, is a tiredness. And he talks about this exhaustion as being another symptom of nihilism. Nihilism is the fact that we don't believe in our meanings, our meaning making.

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