"Absolute nothingness is an ultimate ground of a purely apophatic mysticism, and it is even more primal in Mahayana Buddhism, just as it has been resurrected in the deepest expressions of a uniquely modern imagination. Nietzsche is the only Western thinker who has fully thought an absolute nothingness, although that nothingness is a deep even if elusive ground of Hegelian thinking, and of all of the fullest expressions of modern dialectical thinking and vision."
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Thomas J. J. Altizer, Godhead and the Nothing (2003), Preface
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Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 – 1900
deutscher Philologe und Philosoph
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