Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud - Bog af Max Statkiewicz - Paperback

Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud - Max Statkiewicz

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..