Nihilism (Simple English Wikipedia)

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Frank, Joseph (1995). Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865–1871. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01587-2.
Hingley, Ronald (1969). Nihilists; Russian radicals and revolutionaries in the reign of Alexander II, 1855-81. New York, NY: Delacorte Press. pp. 87–126.
Haar, Michel (1985). The New Nietzsche: contemporary styles of interpretation. MIT Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-262-51034-9.
Gillespie, Michael Allen (1996). Nihilism Before Nietzsche. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226293486.
Nishitani, Keiji (1990). McCormick, Peter J. (ed.). The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism. Translated by Graham Parkes; with Setsuko Aihara. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0791404382.
Turgenev, Ivan. "Chapter 5". Fathers and Sons. Translated by Constance Garnett. A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in.

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"Nihilism". Encyclopædia Britannica. March 13, 2020.
"Fathers and Sons". Encyclopædia Britannica. March 27, 2020.

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Crosby, Donald A. (1998). "Nihilism". Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9780415249126-N037-1. ISBN 9780415250696. As its name implies (from Latin nihil, 'nothing'), philosophical nihilism is a philosophy of negation, rejection, or denial of some or all aspects of thought or life.
Petrov, Kristian (2019). "'Strike out, right and left!': a conceptual-historical analysis of 1860s Russian nihilism and its notion of negation". Stud East Eur Thought. 71 (2): 73–97. doi:10.1007/s11212-019-09319-4. S2CID 150893870.
ter Borg, Meerten B. (1988). "The Problem of Nihilism: A Sociological Approach". Sociological Analysis. 49 (1): 1–16. doi:10.2307/3711099. JSTOR 3711099.
Gloy, Karen (2014). "Nihilismus–Pessimismus". Zwischen Glück und Tragik (in German). Wilhelm Fink. pp. 145–200. doi:10.30965/9783846756454_007. ISBN 9783846756454.
Lovell, Stephen (1998). "Nihilism, Russian". Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9780415249126-E072-1. ISBN 9780415250696.

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Harper, Douglas. "Nihilism". Nihilism | Etymology, origin and meaning of nihilism by etymonline. Online Etymology Dictionary.

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ter Borg, Meerten B. (1988). "The Problem of Nihilism: A Sociological Approach". Sociological Analysis. 49 (1): 1–16. doi:10.2307/3711099. JSTOR 3711099.

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"Nihility". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved November 4, 2020.

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"Nihilism". Home : Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2003.

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Petrov, Kristian (2019). "'Strike out, right and left!': a conceptual-historical analysis of 1860s Russian nihilism and its notion of negation". Stud East Eur Thought. 71 (2): 73–97. doi:10.1007/s11212-019-09319-4. S2CID 150893870.

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Giovanni, George di (2013-12-02). "Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 ed.). Archived from the original on 2013-12-02.

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Pratt, Alan. "Nihilism". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Archived from the original on 2010-04-12.
Wilkerson, Dave. "Friedrich Nietzsche (1844—1900)". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019.

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Pratt, Alan. "Nihilism". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Archived from the original on 2010-04-12.
Giovanni, George di (2013-12-02). "Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 ed.). Archived from the original on 2013-12-02.
Wilkerson, Dave. "Friedrich Nietzsche (1844—1900)". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019.

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