A manifesto for the despairing children of the eleventh hour, this book deals with the issues that are tearing apart the fabric of innocence: suicide, insanity, drugs, violence, the occult, the apocalypse, and finally our salvation, suffering, and resurrection our of the depths of the modern wasteland. It offers a painfully honest appraisal of society form the perspective of the young who are hurt and in despair, and shows how many of their "punk values" become much more meaningful when viewed in the context of authentic Eastern Orthodox Christianity -- particularly within monasticism.
From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new ...
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as "The Possessed.
In my dissertation "Cruel Britannia: British Theatre in the 1990s," I examine a group of young, confrontational playwrights who embraced nihilism as an ethical and political worldview, as a means...
Fundamentalismus - maskierter Nihilismus
... you say , " you're not un- talented . No , " you say , " you're clever " ... Ah , now you're smiling again ! ... I'm caught once more . Well then , let's suppose you wouldn't say , " You're clever . " I can accept anything . Passons ...