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Abstract
In any era of despair, of "souring," as Dostoevsky put it, and national shame, nihilism gains the upper hand. It is as if it were awaiting its hour in order to come to the surface and, having sniffed out freedom, give space to rejection, desecration, and Mephistophelianism.