Nihilism

27 books

Critique and Interpretation of Modern Politics: On the Core Issues in the Strauss-Liberalism Debate cover
Rating 3.9
Critique and Interpretation of Modern Politics: On the Core Issues in the Strauss-Liberalism Debate 刘晓洲 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019 Liberalism provided a political philosophy for the modern Western state built on individual freedom, but it also faces severe challenges today. Leo St…
Notes from Underground cover
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Notes from Underground Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky / 荣如德 / Liu Chen Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 Notes from Underground is a collection of novellas and short stories by the great Russian writer Dostoevsky, including "Mr. Prokharchin," "The Landlad…
One Book to Understand The Myth of Sisyphus cover
Rating 3.1
One Book to Understand The Myth of Sisyphus 屈辛 · 2025 In an age of spreading nihilism, Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus arrives as a bracing philosophical antidote. This book traces the arc of Camus's …
Truth from the Empty Room: Nothingness and Thought in the Daodejing cover
Rating 3.5
Truth from the Empty Room: Nothingness and Thought in the Daodejing 谭立铸 East China Normal University Press · 2025 Laozi's Pointing to the Real seeks to disclose, through the Daodejing, the place of the real—namely, a state of being guaranteed by what may be called…
The Disenchantment of Nature and the Unity of the Poetic: A Study of Early German Romantic Philosophy cover
Rating 4.1
The Disenchantment of Nature and the Unity of the Poetic: A Study of Early German Romantic Philosophy 罗久 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 “Alienation of Reason” and “the crisis of nihilism” are common maladies of human society in an age when modernity runs rampant, and they were also the…
Thus Spoke Zarathustra cover
Rating 4.6
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / 钱春绮 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Thus Spoke Zarathustra captures nearly all of Nietzsche's thought, sending a shudder through Western philosophy as a whole! Nietzsche declares: God is…
Prelude to a Future Philosophy: Nietzsche and Post-Metaphysics cover
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Prelude to a Future Philosophy: Nietzsche and Post-Metaphysics Sun Zhouxing The Commercial Press · 2023 Prelude to Future Philosophy: Nietzsche and Post-Metaphysics is the final report of Professor Sun Zhouxing's National Social Science Fund project, "A …
Nihility and Blossoming: The Reconstruction of Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Poetry cover
Rating 3.6
Nihility and Blossoming: The Reconstruction of Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Poetry 黄怒波 · 2025 Since the 1980s, contemporary Chinese poetry has moved in step with China's modernization while confronting a risk inherent in modernity: the cultural…
Yasunari Kawabata Masterworks in Celebrated Translations Series: Snow Country cover
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Yasunari Kawabata Masterworks in Celebrated Translations Series: Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / Ye Weiqu / 唐月梅 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2023 "Beyond the long tunnel through the border lies the snow country. Under the night sky all is a vast whiteness." In the snow country the geisha Komako …
The Unbridled Horse cover
Rating 4.1
The Unbridled Horse 朱岳 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023 There is a world in which everyone at a certain point writes a book recounting their experiences. The written part is then forgotten; the more one wri…
The Myth of Sisyphus cover
Rating 4.2
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus / 郭宏安 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Sisyphus was punished by the gods: he had to push a huge boulder to the top of a mountain, but the stone, by its own weight, would roll back down, and…
The House of Mirrors cover
Rating 4.2
The House of Mirrors Yukio Mishima / 杨伟 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 A novel of male growth, it tells how four men each resist the encroachment of nihilism in their own way, either dying or living on, depicting Japan's …
Research on the Ideological Genealogy of the "Modern Intellectual" in New Russian Literature cover
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Research on the Ideological Genealogy of the "Modern Intellectual" in New Russian Literature 姜磊 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2023 Russian literature is the vehicle of the country's thought and culture. This book studies the "modern intelligentsia" growth chart composed of "new su…
Thus Spoke Zarathustra cover
Rating 4.7
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche / 钱春绮 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2021 When the boundary between good and evil grows increasingly blurred, when all that is solid melts into air, when the lightness of life becomes unbearab…
Fathers and Sons cover
Rating 4.6
Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Fathers and Sons cover
Rating 4.3
Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism cover
Rating 4.1
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The World English Bible: Ecclesiastes cover
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The World English Bible: Ecclesiastes Anonymous Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 23: Ecclesiastes cover
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 23: Ecclesiastes Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971, and…
Twilight of the Idols cover
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Twilight of the Idols Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …