
For Nietzsche, nihilism goes deeper than ‘life is pointless’
For Friedrich Nietzsche, nihilism is a terrible psychological problem – a coping mechanism with deadly consequences
by Kaitlyn Creasy
Kaitlyn Creasy is an associate professor of philosophy at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author of The Problem of Affective Nihilism in Nietzsche (2020).