Nietzsche called it "the most uncanniest of guest," and said it was the result of a faulty value-system turning back on itself and its human creators, ultimately devaluing itself and causing an abyss-like experience.  
Nietzsche called it "the most uncanniest of guest," and said it was the result of a faulty value-system turning back on itself and its human creators, ultimately devaluing itself and causing an abyss-like experience.  Seen in works like Dostoevsky's Possessed, it is the general phenomenon of human values having no evocatory power, in that questions about meaning not only fail to yield answers that are trustworthy or in the truth, but in addition lead to a void of senseless silence.  FTP, name this philosophical idea, whose name comes from the Latin for "nothingness."
Nietzsche called it "the most uncanniest of guest," and said it was the result of a faulty value-system turning back on itself and its human creators, ultimately devaluing itself and causing an abyss-like experience.  
Nihilism