Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud
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2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0392-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0392-0 (ISBN)
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.
Questioning the Enlightenment in Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Artaud challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. The Enlightenment was characterized, as Arnold put it, as “sweetness and light”. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud each 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. In this study, Statkiewicz explores the seemingly opposing notions of culture and cruelty within the works of these authors to discuss their complex relationship with one another.
Questioning the Enlightenment in Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Artaud challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. The Enlightenment was characterized, as Arnold put it, as “sweetness and light”. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud each 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. In this study, Statkiewicz explores the seemingly opposing notions of culture and cruelty within the works of these authors to discuss their complex relationship with one another.
Max Statkiewicz is associate professor of comparative literature and folklore studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-0392-8 / 1793603928 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-0392-0 / 9781793603920 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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