The seventh solitude
Subtitle: metaphysical homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren, -- 1813-1855; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900; Social isolation in literature
Description: In these three predecessors of existentialism, all of whom were profoundly influenced by Stendahl, the author finds evidence of that spiritual isolation which leads ultimately to personal solitude and philosophical nihilism. To these negative modes of being he opposes the alternatives embodied by St. Augustine and Proust -- the passion for God and the passion for creation.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgments" (p. vii-viii)