Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Course Human, All Too Human? February 8, 2013

Nietzsche regarded Dostoyevsky famously as the only psychologist from whom we could learn anything profound. Certainly he would have admired Dostoyevskys acute examination of the power and force of the will, just as he would have seen some Dionysian elements unleashed in a number of Dostoyevkys novels. Nietzsches attitude to the great Russian novelist however was quite ambivalent, notwithstanding the fact that he had clearly learned much about the question of what it means to be human from the novelist. We examine carefully the relationship and Dostoyevskys influence on Nietzsches later works, especially 'Human, All Too Human', 'Untimely Meditations' and 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', among others. Details of this event may be subject to change. Please visit http://cce.sydney.edu.au/course/ndhu for more information or to register.

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