Donald A. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One: Introduction
1. Experiencing the Absurd
2. Types of Nihilism
Part Two: Arguments for Nihilism
3. Arguments About God, Nature, Suffering, and Time
4. Arguments About Reason, Will, and Other Persons
Part Three: A Critical Look at Religious Sources of Nihilism
5. Anthropocentrism, Externality of Value, and Religion as Theism
6. God's All-Seeing Eye, Search for Certainty, and Deprecation of the World
Part Four: A Critical Look at Philosophical Sources of Nihilism
7. Correspondence-Substance and the Hegemony of Science
8. Truth Through Method and Seeds of Nihilism in the Thought of Descartes
9. The Subjectivist Turn in Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, and Ethics
10. Social-Political Individualism, Fact-Value Dichotomy, and Primacy of Will
Part Five: Final Appraisal
11. The Case Against Nihilism: Lessons and Refutations
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects