Nihilism doesn't have a great reputation. It's associated with existential dread, immorality and Nazis. But writer and journalist Wendy Syfret says the philosophy can also lead to a happy, positive, ...

A scene from Werner Herzog's documentary, Encounters at the End of the World, has gone viral on the internet. In the clip, a single penguin can be seen walking towards the mountains away from the herd ...

David Bryant argues for an optimistic view of life (Face to faith, July 14). He takes as his target the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he accuses of having "demolished just about every ethical and ...

Roger Caillois, possibly one of the most well-known theorists of human games and play, famously wrote that “play is ruined by the nihilist” in his book Man, Play, Games (1961). What he was getting at, ...

On January 14, 2015, a Twitter account named Nihilist Arby's was born, and it didn't take long for Arby's corporate office to notice. With a double beef and cheese as its avatar, the angst-ridden ...

I don't know what did or did not happen between Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow more than 20 years ago, and neither does Nicholas Kristof. What I do know is that Allen is a moral nihilist. This should ...