It’s arguable that the chief through line of his corpus is the attempted overcoming of nihilism. He viewed nihilism as one of the largely inevitable outcomes o

It’s arguable that the chief through line of his corpus is the attempted overcoming of nihilism. He viewed nihilism as one of the largely inevitable outcomes of the failing of transcendentals to provide meaning. Thus he attempts to overcome modern ennui via the construction of a strictly immanent conception of the world. Labeling him a “nihilist” is misleading. Owing to the conflation of nihilism with a dour, depressive outlook, many are surprised to find out that his writing is in fact consistently joyous.