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The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

Frederick C. Beiser
Struggle, Nihilism, Subjectivism
"Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called idealism or nihilism, i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.