Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground
Paperback
(Independently published July 16, 2020)
Written in reaction to Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s ideological novel What Is to Be Done? (1863), which offered a planned utopia based on “natural” laws of self-interest, Notes from the Underground attacks the scientism and rationalism at the heart of Chernyshevsky’s novel. The views and actions of Dostoyevsky’s underground man demonstrate that in asserting free will humans often act against self-interest. The underground man is profoundly alienated from life, entombed in his room. The hero’s views are outlined in Part I, and Part II describes the underground man’s conflicts. When he turns to reason for salvation, it fails him, and he concludes that not reason but caprice ultimately prevails in human nature.
- ISBN
- / 9798666875780
- Pages
- 116
- Weight
- 8.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.29 in.
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