Nietzsche and Russia. The struggle for individuality. Mikhailovsky N.K.

“Our murmur-gray story has so happened that there was nothing to be brought up to self-esteem, which would encourage to squeamishly push away any reptile,” N.K. wrote Mikhailovsky (1842-1904), Russian publicist, sociologist and literary critic.

regarding the Russian history and features of Russian self-awareness, he led an acute polemic with F.M. Dostoevsky and other representatives of “soilism”, who considered the main features of the Russian people, self -denial, reaching the complete oblivion of the personality, readiness for suffering, humility to fate. According to Mikhailovsky, all this belittles and morally cripples a person - as a result, "anywhere a scoundrel cannot do his villain with such convenience for the second and third time over the same weak, morally helpless people." Mikhailovsky discusses a lot about “heroes and crowd”, the struggle for individuality, based, including on the work of F. Nietzsche.

The best works of N.K. Mikhailovsky are presented in this book.