A Vacuum Sucks

Announcing the end of the unquestioned authority of religious doctrine with the provocative exclamation "god is dead," Nietzsche relocated the foundations of Western meaning.

1882, when those three words eviscerated the anchor to Western social, moral, and intellectual maps, must have felt as full of promise and possibility as it was fraught with anxiety and crisis of meaning—as did the close of the 20th century.

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