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An American Ex-Nihilist Exposing Postmodern Errors: Eugene Rose on the Perils of Nihilism

Publication date: 31.12.2024

Slavonic Culture, 2024, Vol. XX, pp. 49-60

https://doi.org/10.4467/25439561KSR.24.003.20750

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Anna Cholewa-Purgał
Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3281-8475 Orcid
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An American Ex-Nihilist Exposing Postmodern Errors: Eugene Rose on the Perils of Nihilism

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This article presents Eugene Rose’s critique of nihilism, the philosophy which he had himself embraced and was devastated by before his conversion to Orthodoxy, before his monastic tonsure and ordination to priesthood. The article argues that Rose’s treatise is not just an ex-nihilist’s and neophyte’s defence of Christianity, but a philosophical analysis of the errors and perils of nihilism, whose relevance today is manifested, for instance, by Putin’s policy and his war in Ukraine.

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Information: Slavonic Culture, 2024, Vol. XX, pp. 49-60

Article type: Original article

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English: An American Ex-Nihilist Exposing Postmodern Errors: Eugene Rose on the Perils of Nihilism
Polish: Amerykański były nihilista wobec błędów ponowoczesności. Eugene Rose o zagrożeniach nihilizmu

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Anna Cholewa-Purgał
Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3281-8475 Orcid
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All publications →

Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa
Poland

Published at: 31.12.2024

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This research was supported by the NCN (Polish National Research Centre) [Miniature 6, grant number 2022/06/X/HS2/01546].

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Anna Cholewa-Purgał – doktor nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa, filolog angielski, członkini zarządu Polish Association for the Study of English, Queen Jadwiga Fellow in Polish Studies w Bibliotece Bodleian na Uniwersytecie w Oksfordzie, adiunkt w Instytucie Literaturoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Jana Długosza w Częstochowie. Zajmuje się m.in. literaturą chrześcijańską i wzajemnymi wpływami chrześcijaństwa Wschodu i Zachodu oraz literaturą baśniową i terapeutycznością literatury. Jest autorką monografii Therapy through Faërie. Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U.K. Le Guin (2017) oraz rozdziałów, m.in.: Romantic Theology of Love According to Charles Williams (2016), C.S. Lewis i Charles Williams o chrześcijaństwie i rewolucji (2018), artykułu Elementy duchowości prawosławnej ocalone od zapomnienia w Anglosferze: mytarstwa w myśli Ojca Serafina Rose’a (2022).

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