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- Title
EDUCATION AND THE LIMITS OF REASON: READING DOSTOEVSKY.
- Authors
Roberts, Peter
- Abstract
Philosophers of education have had a longstanding interest in the nature and value of reason. Literature can provide an important source of insight in addressing questions in this area. One writer who is especially helpful in this regard is Fyodor Dostoevsky. In this essay Peter Roberts provides an educational reading of Dostoevsky's highly influential shorter novel, Notes from Underground. This novel was Dostoevsky's critical response to the emerging philosophy of rational egoism. In this close reading of Notes from Underground, Roberts compares rational egoism with neoliberalism, analyzes the experiences of the central character (the Underground Man), and considers the need for harmony in our educational development as reasoning, feeling, and willing beings.
- Subjects
NOTES From the Underground (Book : Dostoyevsky); DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor, 1821-1881; NEOLIBERALISM; EGOISM in literature; PHILOSOPHY of education; REASON in literature; UNDERGROUND man (Literary figure)
- Publication
Educational Theory, 2012, Vol 62, Issue 2, p203
- ISSN
0013-2004
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/j.1741-5446.2012.00443.x