Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Kafka
Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Kafka How four of Europe's most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind.Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in…
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Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Kafka
How four of Europe's most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind.Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology, philosophy, or belles lettres. In this brilliant combination of biography and lucid exposition, their apocalyptic visions of the future are woven together into a provocative portrait of modernity. Instead, they saw themselves both as the end products of a dying civilization and as prophets of the coming chaos of the twentieth century.
William Hubben...sees the spiritual destiny of Europe as one of transcending these masters. "This small book has a depth of insight and a comprehensiveness of treatment beyond what its modesty of size and tone indicates. But to be transcended, their message must first be absorbed, and that is why the