Posted by Sigismund on July 28, 2009, at 16:03:59
In reply to Re: Couldn't find it, but » Sigismund, posted by InsideOut on July 28, 2009, at 14:29:29
No, I don't know my Dostoyevsky (the print is so small, the translations so bad, my concentration as well) but there is more valuable psychology in a book of his than anything else. I have read half of Crime and Punishment, half of Notes from Underground and half of The Brothers Karamazov. There is an interesting interrogation (what might be one) in Crime and Punishment that I can't get my head around. You mention Nietzche. Ernest Gellner in his interesting book "The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason", said that Freud was Nietzche denatured and made digestable for the middle class.
I only tangled with existentialism many years ago. I liked Camus, although who could forget 'Hell is other people'.
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