NIHILIZMAS IR TIKROVĖ: SPEKULIATYVUSIS REALIZMAS – NIHILIZMO BANALIZAVIMAS?
NIHILISM AND TRUTH: SPECULATIVE REALISM – BANALISATION OF NIHILISM?

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the newest perspectives in the theory of nihilism. The analysis of nihilism as the challenge of contemporary world is impossible without an assessment of recent theoretical approaches to the same phenomenon of nihilism, without rethinking its “concept”. In the given context, a relatively new, but already a very influential philosophical movement, socalled Speculative Realism can stipulate very strong theoretical impulses. The main point of controversy, according to the author, is not only the “novelty” of the concept of nihilism, but reassessment of the relationship between nihilism and reality. It is clear that nihilism has something “in common” with reality, is associated with the problem of reality. However, what kind of reality? Rejecting the principle of “correlation” with reality, Speculative Realism proposes the principle of the reality itself: Nihil or Nothingness is considered as Nihil Unbound. In this perspective Nihilism does not express one’s relationship with reality, but becomes representative of the sterile possibility of thinking itself. The sterility of thinking, making the True into reality, at the same time turns the problem of Nihilism into banality: Nihil Unbound represents an empty mind principle. This conclusion, unmasking the speculative realism, also refers to the “truth” and “realism” pertinent to the problem of nihilism.

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