Against Nihilism : Nietzsche Meets Dostoevsky

• Autore: Stepenberg Maia
• Pubblicazione: Montreal : , : Black Rose Books, , 2019; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 pages)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Exile and Criminality -- Nietzsche's Experience of Exile -- Nietzsche's Relationship to the Idea of Criminality -- Nietzsche's Dualism of Apollo versus Dionysus -- Dostoevsky's Experience of Exile -- Dostoevsky's Concept of Criminality -- Dostoevsky's Theme of the Double in The Idiot -- The Exile-Criminal as an Apostle of Audacity -- Exile, Criminality, and the Idea of Grandeur -- Chapter 2 - Existentialism and the Disease of Nihilism -- What Was Existentialism? -- The "Death of God" and the Advent of Nihilism:Nietzsche's Announcement of Freedom -- The Underground Man and the Misery of Freedom:Dostoevsky's Drama of Alienation -- Illness as Insight: The Value of Suffering -- Chapter 3 - Purity and Prophecy -- Will the Real Nietzsche (or Dostoevsky) PleaseStand Up? -- Nietzsche's Poetic Quest for Purity: Thus SpokeZarathustra -- "At Once Holy and Horrible": The DionysianDescent and Ascent -- Romantic Rebellion -- Dostoevsky's Vision of Strength in Weakness -- Feminine Paragons of Purity in Dostoevsky -- Sonia the Spiritual Virgin -- Chapter 4 - The Dream of the Golden Age -- A Picture of Human Perfection -- The Funny Man as a Source of Confusion -- The Dream as Devilish Denial of Blame: Stavrogin'sGolden Age Vision -- Chapter 5 - Against Nihilism -- A Matter of Life or Death: Twilight of the Idolsand the Antichrist -- Nihilism and the Apocalyptic Vision: Dostoevsky'sThe Possessed -- Chapter 6 - Freedom or Christ? -- Dmitri's Pro: Faith in a Higher Truth -- Ivan's Contra: Against Faith in a Higher Truth -- Alyosha's Faith in a Higher Truth Redux -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Why Kids Shoot Up Schools: For Nietzschean and Dostoevskian Reasons -- Appendix B: Selections from Students' Scripts Imagining Nietzsche and Dostoevsky in Dialogue -- A Select List of Consulted Readings -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Against Nihilism
• ISBN: 1-55164-678-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480181503321
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