Nihilation

The basis of Sartrean freedom is ontological: we are free because we are not a self (an in-itself) but a presence-to-self (the transcendence or "nihilation" of our self). ❋ Flynn, Thomas (2004)

Heidegger now turns to the process of “nihilation”, as revealed in the experience of anxiety. ❋ Enowning (2008)

In nihilation, everything threatens to lose its significance: “All things and we ourselves sink into indifference” P.101. ❋ Enowning (2008)

According to “What is Metaphysics?” we get a sense of beings as a whole, and of Being itself, when we “transcend” the whole of beings in anxiety and experience nihilation. ❋ Enowning (2008)

If Being is the difference it makes to us that there is something rather than nothing, nihilation is what tends to eliminate this difference. ❋ Enowning (2008)

Later that evening, having suffered a shameful ar nihilation at the dart board in the back room at the Captain's Lodge, he joined the elderly Perkins sister under of the big overhead television. ❋ Armstrong, Patricia (1995)

Yet when reading the passages of your forthcoming study of Flaubert, published in Les Temps modernes, one is struck by the sudden re-emergence of the characteristic idiom of the early work — thetic consciousness, ego, nihilation, being, nothingness. ❋ Sartre, Jean-Paul (1970)

L'Imaginaire, Sartre attributes to imagination the truly herculean task of a “nihilation of the world in its essential structure.” ❋ MICHAEL MORAN (1968)