Nihilism doesn't have a great reputation. It's associated with existential dread, immorality and Nazis. But writer and journalist Wendy Syfret says the philosophy can also lead to a happy, positive, ...

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Do you ever lie awake at night agonising about being utterly forgotten once you’ve shuffled off this mortal coil? Do you even matter? Do you feel so pressured to leave behind some semblance of a ...

Roger Caillois, possibly one of the most well-known theorists of human games and play, famously wrote that “play is ruined by the nihilist” in his book Man, Play, Games (1961). What he was getting at, ...

[This postscript is now included as a pamphlet in the book, Nihilist Communism, when sold by Little Black Cart — the publishers —until the current run of printed book runs out. After that they have ...