Nihilism: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Nov 03, 2026
Modified link of Web site: Verywell Mind - Nihilism: History, Philosophy, Theories. Oct 20, 2026
Add new Web site: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Nihilism. Aug 01, 2026
Media added. Nov 21, 2025
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at SHU - Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Virtue of Nature (PDF). Sep 26, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Minefield - Is nihilism compatible with the moral life? Jul 30, 2025
Add new Web site: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute - Nihilism, Nature, and the Collapse of the Cosmos. Nov 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Nihilism. Jul 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Birkbeck Institutional Research Online - Nietzsche on Nihilism: A Unifying Thread (PDF). Jun 20, 2024
Add new Web site: The Ethics Centre - Ethics explainer: Nihilism. May 08, 2024
Add new Web site: The Basics of Philosophy - Nihilism. Feb 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Princeton University Press - Nihilism (PDF). Jan 03, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews - Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality. Nov 07, 2023
Add new Web site: The MIT Press Reader - What Nihilism is Not. Aug 14, 2023
Add new Web site: Verywell Mind - Nihilism: History, Philosophy, Theories. Oct 20, 2022
Corrected display issue. Sep 29, 2017
Article revised. May 12, 2015
Image of Ivan Turgenev added. Feb 08, 2012
Added new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Nihilism. Jan 08, 2008
Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Nihilism. Jan 08, 2008
Added new Web site: AllAboutPhilosophy.org - Nihilism. Jan 08, 2008
Added new Web site: Minerva - Nihilism. Jan 08, 2008
Added new Web site: CounterOrder.com - Nihilism. Jan 08, 2008
Added new Web site: Center for Nihilist and Nihilism Studies - Nihilism. Jan 08, 2008
Added new Web site: Eugene Rose - Nihilism. Jan 08, 2008
Article revised and updated. Feb 15, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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