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In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it.

‘ontological anxiety’: namely, the feeling (sometimes accompanied by a particularly intense hangover) that one is a pointless, superfluous being

The philosopher must simply wage a ceaseless, Canute-like war against them – a battle which Wittgenstein sees as a kind of linguistic therapy, and which Derrida terms ‘deconstruction’.

Nietzsche, however, believed neither in mega-entities nor in everyday ones. He thought the very idea of there being distinct objects, such as God or gooseberries, was just a reifying effect of language.

‘How come Being?’ is a supreme example of a pseudo-question [...] For them, it is really just a ponderous Teutonic way of saying ‘Wow!’