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History of German Nihilism

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Nihilism is a Latin name that refers to believe nothing. Also, it has different meaning because individuals think about it in various ways. Nihilism has several distinct meaning for example it has differ meaning in marketing and business than in history. On the other hand, in each country, it defines in a different way. This word “Nihilism” has made many changes in history and was the cause for great movements, and destruction. For instance, in Russia an essential movement of nihilism took place after the assassination of T Sar Alexander in 1881; many political changes and violence had spread in Russia. In fact, the meaning of Nihilism depends more on the country that it has been used and its period. In Germany, it’s more about philosophical and political ideas, but in Russia it’s more about political movements and radical changes. In some cases, when people disagree with an idea or believe, they decide to support the idea of Nihilism because it is a baseless believes. German nihilism is an effective term which Strauss uses to refer to what is known as the Conservative Revolution Strauss names the leading German nihilists in different ways; such as Oswald Spengler, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, and Carl Schmitt ...Etc. Also, all towers in the Nietzsche figure were indicated as leading thinkers of the Conservative Revolution because they had a great influence. His purpose was defending the philosophical principles of German nihilism, because these are principles that he himself fundamentally supports. After that, Strauss faces several problems; such as philosophical principles of National Socialism. As a consequence Strauss must do an essential impact by preventing Conservative Revolutionary principles from being “refuted” by National Socialist practice. After the two wars German political situation was very bad. There were many political parties at that time in Germany. All those political parties could not solve those problems that normal people have. Between world war one and two, Germany was very isolated from rest of the world. Germany face many economic problem after world war one. Also, between the two World Wars, democracy could not solve German problem, and young people realized that democracy does not wo

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