It’s so weird reading twentieth century philosophers. They were genuinely panicked about the loss of epistemological foundations. Not as an academic intellectual thing, but as “oh my god what am I personally going to do!”
It’s impossible to fully recover that feeling now.
It’s impossible to fully recover that feeling now.
I just barely grew up in modernity, as it was collapsing around me, and I can sort of remember feeling that panic myself in my 20s, but the shape of it is barely discernible through the fog of time.
I mean, seriously. This is from 1988, at least a decade after modernity was over. It’s practically the TVTropes definition of Wangst. 
Contrast this 2021 book _A Defense Of Nihilism_ from two philosophers who are so young that they actually can have no understanding of what nihilism was or how anyone could have thought there was a problem:
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