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Title: Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
Condition: New
Subtitle: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy
Author: Jeff Love
Contributor: Jeff Love (Edited by), Jeffrey Metzger (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780810133945
ISBN: 9780810133945
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 30/10/2016
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 322g
Book Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Release Year: 2016

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