Overcoming Nihilism with Nietzsche | Robert Pippin

An interview with Robert Pippin on Nietzsche, Technology, and Nihilism.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 0. Introduction
00:02:55 1. What is Nihilism
00:20:24 2.1 The Causes of Nihilism: The Wrong Kind of Truth
00:37:13 2.2 The Causes of Nihilism: Deficiency of Self-Contempt
00:43:53 3.1 The Solutions to Nihilism: Self-Overcoming
00:50:55 3.2 The Solutions to Nihilism: Literature Over Philosophy
00:56:54 3.3 The Solutions to Nihilism: The Ideal of Montaigne
01:01:32 4. Nietzsche's Failure to Overcome Nihilism