Reading: Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) This week we turn to the main response to the Nihilists’ ideas of rational egoism and social reorganization, in the form of Dostoevsky’s 1864 novel, Notes from Underground. Dostoevsky is the only writer whose fictional texts we are examining in any detail, but I think this is justified in […]
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Russian thought lecture 5: Dostoevsky and the anti-rationalist argument
Posted by Sarah Young on December 10, 2012
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