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Aesthetics of Humanity & the Materialism of Life Barazov, the nihilist of our tale, represents not only the jaded group of young radicals fro..

Nihilism and Chaos Nihilism, despite being a seemingly simple, almost anarchical view of life without meaning, actually contains much in terms of..

The Crisis of Nihilism The final and most distressing duality Turgenev presents us is the ultimate divergence between Arkadii and Barazov at th..

Interlude: A short history of the Russian Revolutions, 1917 As already alluded to earlier, the Russian Revolution was in fact the upheaval of the..

Preamble “I am a sick man… I am a wicked man.” [1] With this famous line opens one of the nineteenth-century’s most prol..

Existentialism from Kierkegaard through Sartre The existentialist philosopher is indeed a forlorn one, full of despair and regret at the developm..

The Problem of Delusions and Reality This expedition into the mind of the underground man may well begin by his various fantasies and delusions o..

Human Inertia and the Essence of Suffering At the beginning of the underground man’s despondent and bleak look at the murky depths of the h..

An Attack against Rationalism The underground man takes the benefit of an entire twelve pages simply to discuss the faults of rationalism, and th..

The Crystal Palace and the Ultimate Goal of Mankind What we have determined, so far, is that as conscious human beings, we are ultimately vile cr..