Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1: Descartes and the Deceiver God 2: Descartes and the Origin of the Absolute I 3: Fichte and the Dark Night of the Noumenal I 4: The Dawn of the Demonic: Romanticism and Nihilism 5: The Demons Unbound: Russian Nihilism and the Pursuit of t…
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Features essays on ethics, politics, and law. This book re-evaluates the meaning, values, and the idea of freedom in Western culture.
