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Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev [nb 1] (14 October [O.S. 2 October] 1840 – 16 July [O.S. 4 July] 1868) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy , [ 2 ] and for the impact his advocacy of liberation movements and natural science had on Russian ...
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky [a] (24 July [O.S. 12 July] 1828 – 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the Narodniks.
The term nihilism has been widely misused in the West when discussing the Russian movement, especially in relation to revolutionary activity. Criticizing this misterming by Western commentators, Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky stated that revolutionaries themselves simply identified as socialist revolutionaries, or informally as radicals.
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism , where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), also listed among the materialist and nihilist theorists [2] Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), whom some consider the greatest of Russian novelists Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), known as the 'Anarchist Prince' or 'Father of Anarchism'
Pages in category "Philosophers of nihilism" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Mikhail Bakunin;
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The first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to Friedrich Jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized Fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism. According to Jacobi, Fichte's absolutization of the ego (the 'absolute I' that posits the 'not-I') is an inflation of subjectivity that denies the absolute ...