Cruelty. A History of Violence in Culture and the Fates of Humanity
Man is a “cruel animal.” This radical thesis is the starting point of a discursive history of cruelty. Cultural scholar Wolfgang Müller-Funk defines cruelty as part of the civilizational process and offers his perspective on this heart-wrenching aspect of human... evolution that eludes conventional descriptions. In his story of twelve chapters — about Robert Musil and Ernst Jünger, Seneca and Friedrich Nietzsche, Elias Canetti and the Marquis de Sade, Jean Améry and Mario Luzi, Sigmund Freud and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ismail Kadare and Arthur Koestler — Wolfgang Müller-Funk tells an instructive story of cruelty and offers a philosophical way to resist its temptations.
Author: МЮЛЛЕР-ФУНК ВОЛЬФГАНГ
Printhouse: AST
Series: The Word of Modern Philosophy
Age restrictions: 18+
Year of publication: 2023
ISBN: 9785171528270
Number of pages: 416
Size: 200x128x34 mm
Cover type: soft
Weight: 340 g
ID: 1529540
