Nietzsche and Dostoevsky

Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy

Jeff Love, Jeffrey Metzger (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2016
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-3394-5 (ISBN)

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After more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche explicitly acknowledged Dostoevsky’s relevance to his work, noting its affinities as well as itspoints of opposition. Both of them are credited with laying much of the foundation for what came to be called existentialist thought. The essays in this volume bring a fresh perspective to a relationship that illuminates a great deal of twentieth-centuryintellectual history. Among the questions taken up by contributors are the possibility of morality in a godless world, the function of philosophy if reason is not the highest expression of our humanity, the nature of tragedy when performed for a bourgeois audience, and the justification of suffering if it is not divinely sanctioned. Above all, these essays remind us of the supreme value of the questioning itself that pervades the work of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche.

Jeff Love is a professor of Russian and German at Clemson University in South Carolina, USA Jeffrey Metzger is an associate professor of government at Cameron University in Oklahoma, USA

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8101-3394-6 / 0810133946
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-3394-5 / 9780810133945
Zustand	Neuware