Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud - Paperback

by Max Statkiewicz (Author)

This book challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. These authors 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.