Cruelty. The history of violence in culture and destinies.
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A person is a "cruel animal." This radical thesis is the starting point of the discursive history of cruelty. The cultural scientist Wolfgang Müller-Funk defines cruelty as part of the civilizational process and offers his view on this heart-wrenching aspect of human evolution that eludes conventional descriptions. In his history consisting of twelve chapters - about Robert Musil and Ernst Jünger, Seneca and Friedrich Nietzsche, Elias Canetti and Marquis de Sade, Jean Améry and Mario Vargas Llosa, 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:
Author:Müller-Funk Wolfgang
Cover:
Cover:soft
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Science & Math
Dimensions:
Dimensions:20x12.5x3.5 cm
Series:
Series:The Word of Modern Philosophy
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-152827-0
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