Modern nihilism is an open question, a new everyday reality, and a product of consumer society. How has a form of thinking that was once revolutionary and daring led us to the silent constant “no values and no ideals”? To deny and seek nothing - now, in the most complex realities, is a dead end or liberation? Costantino Esposito, an Italian academic and professor of philosophy at the University of Bari, chronicles this phenomenon and shows how nihilism is highlighted in elements of modern culture. These include conversations with students, and reflections on the texts of Wallace, McCarthy, Houellebecq, Roth, Heidegger and Nietzsche, paintings by Albert Burri and Lucio Fontana, even the series “True Detective” and the cartoon “Inside Out.” The author has provided readers with a therapeutic and uplifting text that glimmers in the darkness during these troubling times.