Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. With a background in political philosophy, for many years his research has returned repeatedly to the question of nihilism, taking up the themes of political theology, messianism, the ancient Cynics and Nietzsche along the way. His most recent book is Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury, 2018).

The very idea of a history of philosophy is questionable; if such a history is to be done at all, it should confront its own questionability. This is exactly what Gideon Baker has accomplished in this sharp, accessible and illuminating study, reopening key questions concerning self, politics, technology and being.

• IntroductionSocratesDiogenesPlatoAristotleEpicurusPlotinusAugustineDuns ScotusEckhartSpinozaKantKierkegaardNietzscheHeideggerWeilArendtBadiouButlerGlossesReferences

Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. With a background in political philosophy, for many years his research has returned repeatedly to the question of nihilism, taking up the themes of political theology, messianism, the ancient Cynics and Nietzsche along the way. His most recent book is Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury, 2018).

The very idea of a history of philosophy is questionable; if such a history is to be done at all, it should confront its own questionability. This is exactly what Gideon Baker has accomplished in this sharp, accessible and illuminating study, reopening key questions concerning self, politics, technology and being.

• IntroductionSocratesDiogenesPlatoAristotleEpicurusPlotinusAugustineDuns ScotusEckhartSpinozaKantKierkegaardNietzscheHeideggerWeilArendtBadiouButlerGlossesReferences

Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. With a background in political philosophy, for many years his research has returned repeatedly to the question of nihilism, taking up the themes of political theology, messianism, the ancient Cynics and Nietzsche along the way. His most recent book is Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury, 2018).

The very idea of a history of philosophy is questionable; if such a history is to be done at all, it should confront its own questionability. This is exactly what Gideon Baker has accomplished in this sharp, accessible and illuminating study, reopening key questions concerning self, politics, technology and being.

• IntroductionSocratesDiogenesPlatoAristotleEpicurusPlotinusAugustineDuns ScotusEckhartSpinozaKantKierkegaardNietzscheHeideggerWeilArendtBadiouButlerGlossesReferences