Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

“What does Nihilism mean?” wrote Friedrich Nietszche. “-That the highest values are losing their value. There is no goal.... There is no Truth, no `thing in itself.' There is no answer to the question: `why?'”

In 1962, the young Eugene Rose-the future Hieromonk Seraphim-undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of Truth in the modern age. Of the hundreds of pages of materials he compiled for this work, only the present essay, on Nihilism, has come down to us in completed f...