Heidegger and Dostoevsky on European Nihilism
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George Pattison
Abstract
In the light of Heidegger’s use of Dostoevsky at the start of his lectures on European nihilism, the article considers and evaluates Heidegger’s and Dostoevsky’s respective accounts of the nature of European or Western nihilism and how this may be overcome.
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