Pedestrian Nihilism: Combating the Moralization of Violence in Contemporary American Life

• In Event: Critical Reevaluations of Political Freedom and Agency

Brief Overview

Pedestrian Nihilism explores how the term ‘nihilism’ has been used in the media to moralize, scapegoat, and suppress freedom. Friedrich Nietzsche and Simone de Beauvoir remind us to face nihilism as a condition of radical freedom.

Author

• Griffin Werner, University of Hawaii at Manoa