Max Statkiewicz

Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. These authors pushed back against the optimism of the enlightenment through their writing and advanced the idea of cruelty as lying at the root of all human nature and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9781793603944
• ISBN-10: 1793603944
• Artikelnr.: 67818866

Autorenporträt

By Max Statkiewicz

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations of Nietzsche's Works
Abbreviations of Dostoevsky's Works
Introduction
First Chapter: Cruelty: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Culture
Second Chapter: "Feeling of Thought": Nietzsche's Critique of Terrible
Abstractedness and Dostoevsky's Triumph in the Concrete
Third Chapter: Purification of Cruelty in Antonin Artaud
Conclusion