Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Kafka

'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 coming chaos of the twentieth century. In this combination of biography and lucid exposition, their apocalyptic visions of the future are woven together into a provocative portrait of modernity.