Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud
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- ISBN 9781793603944
- Weight: 213g
- Dimensions: 154 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
