Episode #218 ... Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground

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  Hello, everyone.

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  I'm Steven West.

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  This is Philosophize This.

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  So if you've been listening to the podcast lately and you wanted an example of characters that confront nihilism at a deep level,

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  or characters that try to be authentic on the other side of nihilism at the level that Nishtani is talking about when he talks about a religious quest,

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  well,

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  let's just say you could do worse than reading some of Fjodor Dostoevsky's most famous books,

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  from Crime and Punishment to The Idiot to Brothers Karamazov, to the one we're talking about today,

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  written earlier in his career than any of those, the one we're talking about today is called Notes from Underground,

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  written in the year 1864, arguably his deepest exploration into nihilism.

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  And there's plenty of resources out there that could give you a summary of a book like this,

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  so that's not what I'm going to be doing today.

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  And I guess you could always read a summary if you didn't want to read the actual book, but I will say this,

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  if you were going to read a book in the near future,

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  then Notes from Underground is a pretty short one, and in keeping with what I've been talking about lately,

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  where there are some insights about life and reality that are really only things that can be directly experienced by immersing yourself in them,

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  then God, I don't know,

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  might be fun to read some Russian literature at some point here in life,

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  if you haven't yet, might be something that speaks to you in a unique way.

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  Nonetheless, I feel the need to say here,

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