The Age of Nothingness: How We Live after God's Death (translated Documentary)
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How did Nietzsche's declaration of "the death of God" give birth to a postmodern, fragmented society? An intellectual book that breaks down professional barriers, a feast of ideas that refuses to be simplified. From the collapse of classical antiquity to the 21st century, the exploration journey of human intellectual adventurers over the past 130 years. Is it a spiritual regression, or a return to fanaticism? Where will mankind go when it stands at a historical divergence point? This is a captivating story of human exploration and creation, failure and success in an isolated world. As one of the most outstanding intellectual historians of our time, Peter Watson takes the ideological shock caused by Nietzsche at the turn of the century as the starting point and examines how this shock invaded all aspects of spiritual life, ranging from Dostoevsky, Jung, Husserl, and Ibsen to Picasso and Bob Dylan, from psychology, phenomenology, and theosophy. To Impressionism, Pop Art, Jazz, from Auschwitz, Hiroshima, the Great Purge to Woodstock, and "9·11". Connecting the dots, he uses elegant and precise strokes to unearth the orderly context behind seemingly unrelated phenomena, and draws an ideological map from the era of classical collapse to the bizarre postmodern era.
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