TY - BOOK AU - Hubben,William TI - Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka: four prophets of our destiny AV - B803 .H8 1952 U1 - 190 19 PY - 1962///, c1952] CY - New York PB - Collier Books KW - Kierkegaard, Søren, KW - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, KW - Kafka, Franz, KW - Existentialism in literature N1 - Originally published in 1952 under title, Four prophets of our destiny; Bibliography: p. 179-181 N2 - 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 lettres. 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 UR - http://www.archive.org/details/dostoevskykierke00hubb UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL24592145M ER -