Nihilism

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1) Systematic negation of life. 2) Negation of humanist values. 3) Anti-humanism. This term was first used by Turgenev in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons. The term “nihilists” referred to the violent activities of a Russian revolutionary society that had just published a manifesto following the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881.