Gideon Baker

Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. With a background in political philosophy, for many years his research has returned repeatedly to the question of nihilism, taking up the themes of political theology, messianism, the ancient Cynics and Nietzsche along the way. His most recent book is Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. With a background in political philosophy, for many years his research has returned repeatedly to the question of nihilism, taking up the themes of political theology, messianism, the ancient Cynics and Nietzsche along the way. His most recent book is Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury, 2018). See less