Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part Two)
May 22, 2017, 12:00 PM
More on the novel with guest Corey Mohler, considering Dostoyevsky explicitly as an existentialist in terms of his analysis of the crisis of meaning and his consequent views on religion.
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End song: "Don Quixote" (acoustic, 2010) by Nik Kershaw, as interviewed on the Nakedly Examined Music podcast #37. Don Quixote is Myshkin's literary forebear. #literature #morality #psychology #existentialism #fiction Go to the blog: http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2017/05/22/ep164-2-dostoyevsky/