Philosophy for All
Philosophy for All
Joshua
How to Read Dostoevsky: Understanding Polyphony
15 minutes Posted Nov 2, 2025 at 9:00 pm.
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Send us Fan Mail One of the great contributions to Dostoevsky and literary scholarship was Mikhail Bakhtin's work The Problem of Dostoevsky's Poetics. In this video, I build on this book showing how to understand Dostoevsky through a polyphonic lens and what this means for readers of his works. Understanding polyphony prevents simple oversimplifications of Dostoevsky's views. Support the show -------------------------- If you would want to support the channel and what I am doing, please follo...