"According to Severino, this alienation is at the root of all Western civilisation, which has accepted nihilism in post-Parmenidean metaphysics. We think and experience things as if they were nothing. Technology is nothing more than the salient manifestation of this attitude, which consists in transforming, producing and using things as if they had no reality of their own, as if they were nothing. Therefore, according to Severino, the triumph of technology is the triumph of nihilism. But those who, like him, oppose this triumph and plan a different world do not really escape nihilism because they continue to believe in becoming, in history, in time, that is, in the dominion of nothingness. “Their demands and their plans for a more humane world are the relics that the desert leaves behind as it grows. Philosophy, Christianity, Marxism, art are the relics of the growing desert.” (from “Emanuele Severino”, p. 107)"
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Nicola Abbagnano
1901 – 1990
Nicola Abbagnano (1901 – 1990) was an Italian existential philosopher.
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