Review of the book Do niilismo ao amor da vida, Ser ou não ser, by Walter Trinca

Abstract

Like nature, human beings are confronted with opposing representations that are omnipresent everywhere: construction/destruction, order/chaos, being/nothing, life/death. And history shows us that these same representations were already present in Greco-Roman Antiquity, and probably much earlier. Just think about the myths, which aim to elaborate contradictions and highlight suffering, perversity and disenchantment. If the olympic gods were often cruel, despotic, jealous, etc., it is because they reflected construction and destruction, the two faces on which reality is sustained. In "From nihilism to the love of life, To be or not to be", Walter Trinca takes a long journey through the history of gods and men to show us, firstly, that each human being harbors a factor of destruction that tends to infiltrate yourself in all relationships. [...]