Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

Lecture 3, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013

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Great lecture, but Dostoevsky's books were not banned in the USSR. While the Soviets did censor out some stuff, he was celebrated in the Soviet Union.

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Yes, it does open up Dostoevsky's ideas. It could be mentioned, but so could the Idiot or The Possessed. Perhaps he opted for Brother's Karamazov's text because this chapter entails this stuff quite directly.

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Hobbes has an answer to the values of the social contract that is a paradox to Dostoyevsky. And so does Stoicism.

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It is a myth that Dostoevsky was banned in Russia following the Revolution. Only two books of his were censored (The Possessed and Diary of a Writer). He still remained very popular and even stamps carried his image.