In the same year, 1951, a book appeared in France which took the overcoming of nihilism as the central task confronting humanity at mid-century, L'Homme revolte (The Rebel) by Albert Camus. In two chapters entitled "Absolute Affirmation" and "Nihilism and History," Camus discusses the ideas of Max Stirner and Nietzsche. While the discussion of Stirner (omitted, sadly, from the English translation of the book) is much shorter than Nishitani's, the treatment of Nietzsche is remarkably similar. Citing many of the same passages, Camus too views Nietzsche as a prophetic diagnostician of modern culture, and emphasizes the theme of amor fati and Nietzsche's method of undergoing the experience of nihilism so thoroughly that it finally overcomes itself.
Nishitani Keiji
(1990). The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism.
Translated by Graham Parkes and Setsuko
Aihara, SUNY Press. p. xviii.
