Steven Kierkegaard
11 (42)
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
53 (38)
Friedrich Nietzsche
91 (36)
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
127 (10)
Franz Kafka
137 (22)
The Four Apocalyptic Horsemen
159 (10)
The Angel's Finger
169 (10)
Selected Bibliography 179 (6)
Index of Names and Places 185

How four of Europe's most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind. Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology, philosophy, or belles letters. Instead, they saw themselves both as the end products of a dying civilization and as prophets of the coming chaos of the twentieth century. In this brilliant combination of biography and lucid exposition, their apocalyptic visions of the future are woven together into a provocative portrait of modernity