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Cruelty. The history of violence in culture and the fate of humanity

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Cruelty. The history of violence in culture and the fate of humanity
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Man is a "cruel animal." This radical thesis is the starting point of a discursive history of cruelty. Cultural scholar Wolfgang Müller-Funk identifies cruelty as part of the civilizational process and offers his perspective on this heartbreaking aspect of human evolution that escapes conventional descriptions.In his twelve-chapter history of Robert Musil and Ernst Jünger, Seneca and Friedrich Nietzsche, Elias Canetti and Marquis de Sade, Jean Amery and Mario Llosa, Sigmund Freud and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ismail Kadar and Arthur Koestler, Wolfgang Müller-Funk tells the cautionary tale of cruelty and offers a philosophical way to resist its temptations.
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