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Human Affairs

Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly

Editor-in-Chief: Gabriel Bianchi
Edited by: James Tartaglia and Kamila Urban

Language: English

First published: June 1, 1991

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Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly (founded in 1990 as Human Affairs) is an international journal for humanities and social sciences published by De Gruyter and owned by the Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.

The journal's primary mission is to create a space for interdisciplinary dialogue among academics who are conducting innovative theoretical, interpretative, critical and/or historical research on topics related to human affairs issues. Specifically, the journal aims to foster collaboration among diverse disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, encompassing various social and cultural contexts.

In particular, we primarily publish theoretical and empirical studies that combine conceptual or methodological approaches from multiple disciplines. The aim is to enable communication between sub-disciplines such as (but not limited to) social psychology and sociology, educational psychology, gender studies, anthropology, bioethics, philosophy of mind, and political sciences.

We also welcome studies with practical and implicational overlap in human interactions and human affairs more generally.

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Introduction: The History of Nihilism Special Issue

October 7, 2025

James Tartaglia, Kieran Brayford

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Graffiti, Grief, and Rebellion: The Politics of Street Art in Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protests

September 29, 2025

Beatrice Damilola Adeoye, Seun Bamidele, Nureni Aremu Bakenne, Titilayo Lydia Bamidele

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This study examines the role of street murals and graffiti as instruments of resistance, memory, and social change during the 2020 #EndSARS movement in Nigeria. Through a qualitative analysis of over 20 protest artworks, semi-structured interviews with participating artists, and a review of media and non-governmental organisations reports, the study explores how visual culture shaped and sustained collective action against police brutality and systemic oppression. Drawing on theories of protest aesthetics, spatial justice, and the radical imagination, the study argues that these artistic expressions were not peripheral to the movement, but central to its identity, emotional resonance, and global reach. The findings reveal that protest art operated on multiple fronts: symbolically confronting state violence, reclaiming urban space, facilitating communal healing, and circulating transnationally through digital platforms. In doing so, the #EndSARS murals and graffiti extended civic participation beyond the streets, embedding resistance into the urban fabric and digital memory. The study contributes to the literature on African social movements by foregrounding the aesthetic dimension of protest, offering new insights into how art functions as a political and affective practice in authoritarian and postcolonial contexts. It also identifies areas for future research, including comparative protest aesthetics across African cities and the long-term impact of art in transitional justice processes.
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God’s Nothingness: On the Persistence of the Negative in Meister Eckhart

September 23, 2025

Marlene Prosdocimo

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The belief that ‘Life is meaningless’ may at first seem incompatible with a theistic point of view. However, Meister Eckhart, a mystic member of the Dominican order, showed already in the 13th-14th Century that the innermost divine essence follows a “logic” that prescinds from the logic of “whys” – whereby everything needs an explanation (causal or otherwise) – and eludes any representation, thus leading to nothingness . God does not correspond, then, to the holder of an absolute meaning that is inaccessible to humanity. Eckhart’s thought, marked by a fundamental negativity, does not only involve the divine side: nothingness, in fact, also concerns creatures and their living. Godhead, that is God’s purest essence, consists precisely of this originary nothingness. Although divine nothingness is unrelated, it follows a dialectical movement: this paper will show how the divine essence (conceived as a “double negation”) is gained by negating creatures, to which the ‘nothingness’ of single negation corresponds. ‘Nothingness’ thus works on several levels and is never overcome by an ontological positivity represented by God – though this does not exclude the God of manifestation, the creator which “carries” attributes.
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The Question of Nihilism in the Philosophy of Ivan Urbančič

September 16, 2025

Manca Erzetič

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The article deals with the treatment of nihilism in the philosophical oeuvre of Ivan Urbančič, which has lasted nearly 50 years. In the first part I try to show how Urbančič’s early consideration of nihilism in the 1960s and the 1970s is closely connected with confrontation with socialist ideology in the former Yugoslavia. This situation, which required him to take a personal philosophical standpoint, had a considerable impact on Urbančič’s reflection upon the contemporary position of philosophy in general. In the second part of the article, I turn to Urbančič’s extensive project, started in the 1990s, which deals with the problem of nihilism in the context of the entire legacy of philosophy. The key conclusion is that in the gap of scientific, capital, and political domination of the world, the presence of nihilism remains obscured, but therefore even more determining for the understanding of the meaning of humanity today.
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Between the History of Nihilism and the Nihilism of History

September 16, 2025

Dean Komel

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The paper considers the nihilism of history in relation to the concepts of the “crisis of modernity”, “the end of history” and our “contemporary situation”. The problem is that the disposedness of nihilism itself determines our existential and coexistential situation, since it erases its historical horizon. On the other hand, the pressure of the situation demands that we adopt an open attitude towards our own contemporaneity, which includes not only ourselves but also the world between and around us. Finally, in relation to Hegel’s introduction to his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, the question of the immanent historicity of philosophy and the nihilism of history is raised. In this context, I also discuss some of the assumptions of Jon Stewart’s historical-philosophical consideration of nihilism in his book The History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century from 2023.
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Blanchot at the Limits of Nihilism

September 11, 2025

Ashley Woodward

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This paper seeks to explain Blanchot’s original and compelling, but frequently overlooked, interpretation of nihilism. It focuses on the philosophical, rather than the literary which has had primary focus in previous commentaries. It focuses on two dimensions – the personal, examined through Blanchot’s writings on finitude and death, and the general, examined through his confrontation with Nietzsche’s notions of the overman and the eternal return. Blanchot problematises the possibility of overcoming nihilism through a pure affirmation of life, seeing the problem of meaning in life as ultimately intractable. The paper positions Blanchot’s engagement with nihilism as one of a number in the historical tradition that have questioned the viability of overcoming nihilism. Its unique significance, however, lies in Blanchot’s suggestion of a more oblique response which might mitigate nihilism without overcoming it.
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Personal Growth Initiative as a Psychological Armor: Mitigating the Effects of Gender Discrimination on Women Empowerment

September 9, 2025

Sadia Zaman, Irum Naqvi

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Personal growth initiative may serve as an internal mechanism through which urban, educated women attain empowerment in environments marked by strong patriarchal structures and collectivist ideologies. This study examines the relationship between personal growth initiative – defined as a self-directed pursuit of psychological development – and perceived gender discrimination and gender role attitudes, aiming to explain changes in empowerment among urban, educated Pakistani women ( N = 621, 23–59 years; M = 30.65, SD = 6.68). A moderated mediation model was tested, wherein personal growth initiative was conceptualized as both a protective factor and a moderator in the indirect relationship between gender role attitudes and empowerment, via perceived gender discrimination. Modern gender role attitudes were negatively associated with heightened perceptions of gender discrimination, and positively associated with women empowerment. Higher levels of personal growth initiative weakened this negative association of gender discrimination and women empowerment, both directly and indirectly. The findings highlight personal growth initiative as a promising psychological resource that may help urban, educated Pakistani women. By focusing on internal agency and personal development, the study offers insights into how individual-level strengths can support empowerment within challenging sociocultural environments.
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Obereit’s Nihilism: Inventing or Diagnosing a Social Sickness?

September 3, 2025

Tom Giesbers

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This paper provides an overview of Jakob Hermann Obereit’s introduction of the philosophical term nihilism from 1787 up to 1791. It argues that this introduction is part of a project called the desperate metaphysics, which is partly a response to the reception of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of pure Reason , but also an assessment of the rise of a focus on individual responsibility, development and autonomy that had been put forward during the Enlightenment. In this sense, nihilism is introduced in response to a philosophical discussion that is understood as drawing out the depths of these Enlightenment demands and the untenability of traditional metaphysics, explaining the immediate appeal of the term and its rapid spread beyond philosophy.
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Artificial Intelligence Applications in Higher Education: Theories, Ethics, and Case Studies for Universities

September 3, 2025

Muhammed Parviz, Amir Ghorbanpour

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The Cosmological Significance of Modern Nihilism

August 22, 2025

Eva Dedeckova

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I will outline the understanding of the world in Eugen Fink’s cosmological philosophy in relation to modern nihilism. What impact does a particular conception of the world have on the understanding of what a human being, a community, a morality, or an ideal, is? Is a meaningful life possible after the collapse of traditional metaphysical interpretations of human existence? I will try to explain why, according to Fink, nihilism should not be seen purely negatively. What this means in terms of emerging ‘intelligent’ technologies and the destabilizing effects of the misinformed response to the environmental crisis as these affect possibilities for human freedom?
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Nihilism and Nazism: On Rauschning’s The Revolution of Nihilism

August 20, 2025

Nolen Gertz

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This article is an investigation into Hermann Rauschning’s 1939 book The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West in which he claims that the Nazis should be viewed, not as driven by ideology, but as driven by nihilism. According to Rauschning, who was himself a former official in the Nazi Party, the Nazis had no goal or purpose other than to seek destruction for the sake of destruction, and thus were nihilists. As this view goes against both the standard understanding of Nazism (as driven by racist and nationalist ideologies) and of nihilism (as individualistic rather than political), this paper first investigates Rauschning’s arguments and then compares them against the analysis of Nazism offered by Hannah Arendt. Contrary to Rauschning, Arendt argues that Nazism was driven by a very specific racial ideology and she thus warns against viewing the Nazis as nihilists. By comparing and contrasting the arguments of Rauschning and of Arendt, this paper concludes by offering a better understanding of Nazism and of nihilism.
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The “Lords of Life” and Emerson’s View of the Human Condition

August 20, 2025

Jon Stewart

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The American writer and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson published his essay “Experience” in 1844. Two years earlier Emerson had been thrown into a spiritual crisis with the death of his young son Waldo. In his essay Emerson finds himself enjoined to rethink his world-view and the meaning of human existence. He gives a rich portrayal of the experience of nihilism by means of a series of personified concepts which he refers to as the “lords of life.” Emerson’s essay can be seen as his attempt to formulate a response to nihilism and meaninglessness. He proposes a few possible solutions to the problem, such as urging his readers to abandon tedious intellectual discussions and abstract thoughts about the human condition and simply focus on their projects and pursuits in the world. The present article argues that despite Emerson’s appreciation of the depths of the nihilism, his proposals to remedy the problem are unsatisfying.
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Heidegger and Dostoevsky on European Nihilism

August 19, 2025

George Pattison

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In the light of Heidegger’s use of Dostoevsky at the start of his lectures on European nihilism, the article considers and evaluates Heidegger’s and Dostoevsky’s respective accounts of the nature of European or Western nihilism and how this may be overcome.
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The Will to Nothingness: A Nietzschean Concept

January 1, 2000

Rodrigo Farías Rivas, Leonel Calcagni González

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This paper explores Nietzsche’s notion of nihilism by centering on the neglected lens of the will to nothingness. Contrary to dominant interpretations that reduce nihilism to the modern crisis of meaninglessness following the death of God or to the logic of metaphysics, this paper argues that the will to nothingness corresponds to the very logic of nihilism, and studies its continuing role in contemporary capitalist civilization. Sketched in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals (GM), then, the will to nothingness emerges as a paradoxical volitional response to surplus suffering in early human history: a will that seeks power by rejecting power, justifying existence through moral and metaphysical gestures of world-denial. This paper then explores how this paradox informs the self-weakening unfolding and broader historical dynamics of nihilism, situating Nietzsche’s insights in dialogue with Heidegger’s metaphysical interpretation of nihilism and other related perspectives, like Deleuze’s recuperation and elaboration on the notion. Ultimately, the will to nothingness is rescued as the driving paradox of nihilism and thus as an overlooked element of Nietzsche’s broader civilizational critique and project of revaluation that demands renewed attention in our contemporary context.
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Parenting with Children Aged up to Three Years: Theory and Research

January 1, 2000

Lenka Sokolová

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“The Laughter of Ecstasy Doesn’t Laugh”—Bataille on the Divinity of Nothing

January 1, 2000

Lydia Amir

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Georges Bataille’s significance as a philosopher can be disputed, but his relevance for the study of laughter cannot be overlooked nor should the role he gives to nothingness be underestimated. To appreciate the 20th-century French thinker’s view of the divinity of nothingness, a presentation of his complex reflection on laughter is in order. I attempt to provide as coherent an account as possible, so that in assessing the originality and viability of Bataille’s theory of laughter we may enlighten his views on the divinity of nothing. The interest of Bataille in the relation between philosophy and laughter is explicitly stated: He declares that insofar as he is a philosopher, he is a “philosopher of laughter”; he considers laughter the puzzle which “at all costs” he “would solve” because if solved, it “would of itself solve everything”; and he maintains that “laughter is the central given, the first given, and perhaps even the final given behind philosophy.” Following his extraordinary experiences with laughter, in which, “illuminated convulsively,” he discovered that laughter was revelation, that it “opened up the depth of things,” Bataille declared laughter divine and confessed to his fear of being ultimately “LAUGHTER ITSELF!” Defining himself a mystic in line with the mystics of all times, I argue that his thought and practice of laughter consist of a mysticism of laughter rather than a laughing mysticism. The originality of this view reduces its viability: it is intrinsically connected with Bataillean experiences of laughter and with his argument that one should lose rather than save oneself.
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Spontaneous Order and the History of Nihilism

January 1, 2000

Luke Lea

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While pre-modern intellectual cultures are recognized to have engaged with pessimism, nihilism is, by contrast, often understood to be a distinctly modern phenomenon. The sources of nihilism should then be traceable to or reflected in certain differences between modern and pre-modern thought. This paper identifies one such difference: a conceptual category for large-scale social and political phenomena understood as the product of human activity but not of human design. The paper briefly sketches the development of this concept in the Scottish Enlightenment and its development of a diachronic dimension in Hegel’s philosophy of history. It then points out the implications of this conceptual category both for our understanding of human beings as historical agents and for theories of normativity and the justification of social and political norms. These implications are identified by way of a contrast to the intellectual culture of Classical Greece. Finally, it is argued that this concept contributed to the development of trends in thought and culture commonly associated with nihilism by weakening notions of the historical agency of both individuals and groups.
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Dionysus versus the Crucified: Thinking the Death of God with Heidegger, Girard, and Bataille

January 1, 2000

Peter Stewart-Kroeker

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Girard has argued that in the opposition between “Dionysus” and “the crucified,” Nietzsche contrasts Christian martyrdom that resolves violence through pacifism with pagan festivals that affirm violence by ritualizing it. In agreement with Girard, this article shows how Heidegger’s discussion of nihilism fails to ethically confront the violence of Nietzsche’s Dionysianism, a criticism that applies equally to Deleuze. However, I argue that Bataille’s reading of Nietzsche confronts the violence in a manner that Girard fails to appreciate. Bataille interprets ritual sacrifice as a drama communicating the loss of identity experienced by those who contemplate the spectacle. Bataille demonstrates the complicity between Dionysian and Judeo-Christian martyrdom insofar as both implicate human beings in the violence of evil that the death of God consummates.
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Ethical Hunting Frameworks in Slovakia: A Meta-Analysis of Normative Documents

January 1, 2000

Adela Lešková Blahová

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This study examines selected ethical frameworks that shape hunting in Slovakia, focusing on the Code of Ethics and Hunting Regulations. The objectives and societal significance of hunting and game management in the context of current legislation and the conceptual foundations of contemporary Slovak hunting are outlined in the Introduction section. The following analytical sections examine selected ethical documents regulating hunting in Slovakia, focusing on their function, content, and form, ethical elaboration, normative relevance, and philosophical foundations. This study identifies the possible strengths and weaknesses of these normative ethical documents and proposes revisions to enhance their ethical and philosophical quality. The results show that both documents are primarily based on an anthropocentric philosophical framework. The analysis reveals that the Hunter’s Code of Ethics primarily fulfills an aspirational (ideational) function, whereas the Hunting Regulations serve a regulatory function. This study suggests that a reasonable integration of both documents would increase their professional value and support Slovakia’s institutionalization of hunting ethics.

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By publishing primarily, though not exclusively, original and theoretical articles, empirical studies, and reviews, Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly aims to foster interdisciplinary, multicultural and international conversation concerning the whole range of human affairs and social issues.

The journal is particularly interested in creating a space for bringing together different humanities and social sciences disciplines from various social and cultural contexts.

In particular, we publish studies combining multiple disciplines' conceptual or methodological contributions. The aim is to enable communication between sub-disciplines such as social psychology, educational psychology, bioethics, anthropology, philosophy of mind or political sciences.

We also welcome studies with practical and implicational overlap in human affairs and human interactions.

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Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly accepts only original articles which have not been published and are not in press or under consideration for publication by another publisher at the time of submission. When submitting a manuscript, the author(s) will be asked to include a Transfer of copyright agreement. In the agreement, the author(s) also declares that “the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.” When working with a new submission, the editors first check the originality of the article, using different database searches to look at other articles by the same authors and related published articles. In case of problems, our editors work with the Publishing Ethics Resource Kit developed by Elsevier.

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1337-401X

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1210-3055

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English

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De Gruyter

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First published:

June 1, 1991

Publication Frequency:

4 issues per year

eISSN: 1337-401X

ISSN: 1210-3055

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