O vojni nihilizma

Abstract

On the War of Nihilism - - - Today, we can certainly be at least somewhat astonished and appalled that the rhetoric of war has become commonplace and enjoys considerable, if not abundant, public support, which can, of course, also be politically orchestrated. But we are also horrified by the violent war situations, which should—according to a more or less imposed belief—be regarded as a disgrace to humanity in the 21st century. The present paper is not concerned with diagnosing the nihilistic implications and complications of today’s military conflicts that are more or less visible, however much one may try to disguise them, but rather with revealing the eventuating of the war of nihilism itself, which, in the first place, nihilizes the very essence of the human being and obliterates the horizon of the world. The war of nihilism, though visibly threatening with total annihilation and destruction, is not directly transparent as a power over everything, and yet for nothing. This non-transparency has a manipulative character, which makes it impossible to mobilize against the war of nihilism, because it itself carries out “a total mobilization” in the service of the empowerment of pure power, that is to say, the power, which in its supposed “will-lessness” is strong enough to will nothing, and, above all, nothing essential.

Keywords

• war
• nihilism
• power
• being
• human being