Episode #220 ... Dostoevsky - Demons

hello everyone I'm Steven West this is philosophies this so today we're talking about the book demons it's one of the five Great novels people say you just have to read if you're going to be reading some dovi and as usual this podcast is going to be covering the philosophical themes of this book you know what Doki was going for in the context of the thought of his time what I mean is this is not intended to be like a book club where I'm telling you what I think about the book you know this isn't my opinion about how this character reminds me of my Uncle Murray or something and more than that this episode epis isn't intended to be a replacement for actually reading the book just feel the need to say that every time as we get started with one of these another thing to say here is that this is now the third book from doeski that we've covered and Notes from Underground and crime and punishment will be referenced throughout this entire episode so just a heads up there but that said how do you begin to describe a book like demons it's one of the most complex books Doki ever wrote in his lifetime I mean there's a lot to this book it's about 750 pages long it's full of symbolism for whatever it's worth it's the book n stumbled upon in a bookstore one day that made him a fan of doeski as a thinker I guess I'll try to start this way remember how I said that crime and punishment may look like one kind of book on the surface but that it's actually something deeper than that for dooski that crime and punishment kind of masquerades as a book that's about a guy that murders a couple people but that the true drama of the book is in his internal experience and his slow painful coming to terms with his relationship to something greater than himself and then further finding a way to consent to that fact well if that's what crime and punishment is then Demons by dovi is a book that masquerades as a political novel it's a book that seems to be about a group of revolutionaries bunch of people upset about the state of Russian Society the book then shows them planning and executing ...