From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
The modern world and traditional man
The end of a cycle : ride the tiger
European nihilism : the dissolution of morals
From the precursors of nihilism to the "lost youth" and the protest movement
Disguises of European nihilism : the socioeconomic myth and the protest movement
Active nihilism : Nietzsche
The transcendent dimension : "life" and "more than life"
Beyond theism and atheism
Invulnerability : Apollo and Dionysus
Acting without desire : the causal law
Being and inauthentic existence
Sartre : prisoner without walls
Existence, a "project flung into the world"
Heidegger : "retreating forwards" and "being-for-death" : collapse of
The dual aspect of anonymity
Destructions and liberations in the new realism
The "animal ideal" : the sentiment of nature
The procedures of modern science
Covering up nature : phenomenology
The sickness of European culture
Dissolution in modern art
States and parties : apoliteia
Society : the crisis of patriotic feeling
Relations between the sexes
Death : the right over life.
