The View from Mount Zapffe

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Philosophy Now
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The View from Mount Zapffe

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Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist.

http://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_ ... unt_Zapffe
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Re: The View from Mount Zapffe

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“The human race come from Nothing and go to Nothing. Above that, there is Nothing.”
He even capitalized it, awesome!
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Re: The View from Mount Zapffe

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I recently discovered that Zapffe’s major philosophical text, Om Det Tragiske from 1941, has finally been translated into English by American philosopher Ryan L Showler and is due for publication early March 2024 by Peter Lang with the title ‘On the Tragic’
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