The Revolution of Moral Consciousness: Nietzsche in Russian Literature, 1890-1914

by Edith W. Clowes

Book Overview

No other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness shows how Nietzschean thought influenced the brilliant resurgence of literary life that started in the 1890s and continued for four decades. Through an analysis of the Russian encounter with Nietzsche, Edith Clowes defines the shift in ethical and aesthetic vision that motivated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875801390
• ISBN13: 9780875801391
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher