Dostoevsky and the Russian Idea

3 credits · Undergraduate

Conducted in English. Dostoevsky's novels are of the highest importance in understanding the fate of Russia and the thoughts of other great Russian authors and thinkers. Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov are taken as the basis for discussion. The works of I. Turgenev and Lev Tolstoy are discussed together with the ideas of such great Russian philosophers as V. Solovyev and N. Berdyaev. FORMATS: Lecture | Discussion