Nihilism, Language and Creativity: The Dividing Line between Nietzsche and Derrida

Modern Philosophy 3:72-79 (2009)
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Crisis of nihilism Nietzsche and Derrida made ​​a different response. This is because the interpretation of the main activities and results, nihilism crisis itself can be of two shows: on the one hand, metaphysical truth will have evolved into a yoke, brought the nihilism of "emptiness," or the history of human creativity and end; the other hand, constitute the main body out of the metaphysical crisis conditions. Derrida pay more attention to negative criticism of the former opened a metaphysical pursuit of transcendent truth, emptiness brought, or questioning the origin of the cover of the "origin" missing. Nietzsche on this criticism, but he is more eager to reverse this trend, the more constructive reconstruction, not just the loss of the principal cast, "meaning" empty field. Its purpose is out of negative nihilism, revival of the creative impulse in the main role

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