the apparent 'desolation from cosmic meaning' (both trans-mundane and post-mortem) that Nietzsche presented with his "madman" -- of the earth, life, mankind, "God"...loosened from meaningful moorings, without e.g. any three-tier world or Dantean spheres, and more like a La Place>Hawkins 'merely' astro-physical cosmography -- describes an experience of the human on the earth in godless space and time (which Pascal apparently also sensed, with the "infinite spaces" which terrified him) where there is no here-beyond or hereafter...
want a subtle, detailed study of this precise idea, or sense, of human 'cosmic desolation' in the CV of "Western" history.
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