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Book SynopsisNo other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness shows how Nietzschean thought influenced the brilliant resurgence of literary life that started in the 1890s and continued for four decades. Through an analysis of the Russian encounter with Nietzsche, Edith Clowes defines the shift in ethical and aesthetic vision that motivated Russia''s unprecedented artistic renascence and at the same time led its followers to the brink of cultural despair. Clowes shows how in the last years of the nineteenth century a diverse array of writers and critics discovered Nietzsche''s thought, embracing or repudiating it with equal vigor. The literary storm brewing around Nietzsche and the concurrent relaxation of censorship combined to attract a public eager to follow the new intellectual fashion. Young writers, such as Andreev and Kuprin, welcomed the idea of the superman as a promising pa
Trade Review
This book is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on Nietzsche's influence in Russia.
* The Russian Review *
Clowes has written a most stimulating book, which considerably advances or understanding of this 'crucial catalyst' in the ferment of pre-revolutionary Russian culture.
* Journal of European Studies *
[This book is] a must for any Silver Age scholar.
* Slavic and East European Journal *
