POSITIVE NIHILISM

Like many German intellectuals, Hartmut Lange has long grappled with Heidegger. Positive Nihilism is the result of a lifetime of rea ding Being and Time and offers a series of reflections that are aphoristic, poetic, and (appropriately, considering his object of st udy) difficult. Lange begins with an abyss (There is an abyss of the finite. It is temporality) and proceeds almost immediately to e xtremity: The twentieth century was governed by psychopaths. They collapsed the boundaries of moral reason and refuted Kant's analys is of co...[Read more]