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Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud

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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.

List of contents










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

About the author










Max Statkiewicz is associate professor of comparative literature and folklore studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors Max Statkiewicz, Statkiewicz Max
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 12.04.2023
 
EAN 9781793603944
ISBN 978-1-79360-394-4
No. of pages 136
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama

LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800

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