Nihilism and Philosophy Nothingness Truth and World

The question of nihilism is always a question of truth.<br/><br/>It is a crisis of truth that causes the experience of the nothingness of existence. What elevated truth to this existential position? The answer is: philosophy. The philosophical will to truth opens the door to nihilism since it both makes identifying truth the utmost aim and yet continually calls it into question. <br/><br/>Baker develops the central insight that the crises of truth and of existence or 'loss of world' that occur within nihilistic thought are inseparable in a wide-ranging study from antiquity to the present from ancient Cynics St Paul Nietzsche Heidegger Foucault Agamben and Badiou.<br/><br/>Baker contends that since nihilism is always a question of the relation to the world occasioned by the philosophical will to truth an answer to nihilism must be able to propose a new understanding of truth.