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Nietzsche and Dostoevsky : philosophy, morality, tragedy / edited by Jeff Love and Jeffrey Metzger.
Van Pelt Library PG3328.Z7 P573 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Russian literature and theory
- Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
- Philosophy in literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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 Dostoevski's relevance to his work, noting its affinities as well as its points 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-century intellectual 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, which pervades the work of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Jeff Love and Jeffrey Metzger
- Nietzsche with Dostoevsky : unrequited collaborators in crime without punishment / Geoff Waite with Francesca Cernia Slovin
- Violence and the dissolution of narrative / Jeff Love
- Truth, will, and reactivity in Nietzsche and Dostoevsky / Jeffrey Metzger
- Dostoevsky's impact on Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism / Michael Allen Gillespie
- Nietzsche's pessimism in the shadow of Dostoevsky's / Joshua Foa Dienstag
- Mapping the unconscious in notes from underground and on the Genealogy of morals : a reconsideration of modern moral consciousness / Edith W. Clowes
- Tragic nationalism in Nietzsche and Dostoevsky / Ilya Kliger
- The gods and demons of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche / Dmitri Nikulin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810133945
- 0810133946
- 9780810133952
- 0810133954
- OCLC:
- 948339862
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