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Death of God
The "death of God" is a load-bearing cross-tradition motif of the corpus — and a genealogical lineage, not a single doctrine. Its philological source is Hegel's speculative Good Friday (Phenomenology §785, "God himself is dead"), where the…
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Europe as the Crisis of Play
Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Universiteit Leiden) · Year: 2025 · Type: chapter
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Europe as the Crisis of Play
Chouraqui's hypothesis (in "Europe as the Crisis of Play", 2025) about the essence of European modernity: that it is the cultural invention of seriousness, and therefore that Europe is best defined as the graveyard of play. Europe is not a…
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Fetishistic Theory of Care (Nihilism)
Chouraqui's redescription of nihilism (in "Europe as the Crisis of Play", 2025) as, "at heart, a fetishistic theory of care." On this reading, nihilism is not first a doctrine about value's absence but a doctrine about care's grounds: to c…
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Machenschaft
Heidegger's name for the mode of Being in the completed epoch of metaphysics — the form Seiendheit (beingness) takes when the Vollendung has installed Seinsverlassenheit (abandonment by Being) as the prevailing condition. Machenschaft is n…
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Nietzsche II
Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1961 (compositions: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944-46; published Neske 1961, GA 6.2 ed. Brigitte Schillbach 1997) Type: Hybrid (lecture course + Abhandlungen + genealogical sketches + methodological meditation)
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Nihilism
Nihilism is one of the corpus's most-cited terms and was, until now, one of its few un-homed HUB motifs — because three ingested traditions use the word for structurally different things. For Nietzsche, nihilism is the will to nothingness:…
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On the Genealogy of Morality
Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche · Year: 1887 · Type: book (polemic — Eine Streitschrift)
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The Ascetic Ideal
The subject of the Third Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality, and Nietzsche's name for the value-system that treats this life — "nature, world, the whole sphere of becoming and of transitoriness" — as a wrong path to be denied in favor o…
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The Will to Truth
Nietzsche's name for the unconditional drive to truth "at any price" — and, in the Third Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality, the unexpected core of the very ascetic-ideal that modern science and atheism imagine themselves to oppose. Bey…