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A review by chrisrohlev1234
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction by Rowan Williams
5.0
"The sinner whom you are invited to judge is someone for whose condition you have to share the blame."
Every day, I am more and more convinced that Philosophy is the dumbest subject on earth.
I think that while every book leaves a small mark on the unconscious of a reader, there are a few you read throughout your life that you remember and think back on constantly.
This is one of those books.
What I was really afraid of when I first picked up this book was that it was going to be hardcore christian/orthodox apologetics. I was worried that Mr. Williams would instruct me on how to live a life like Alyosha. I quickly realized, not thirty pages in, that this book does not cast a moral judgment in the slightest. It says, here is Dostoevsky, here is his thought, and here is why I(Rowan Williams) think his characters act this way. And it's not abstract Philosophy either. I don't have to deduce or reduce or do thought experiments. More based on feeling(the only way books should be)
Anyway, there's way too much to review here, but if you want an interesting take on ALL of Dostoevsky, buy this book immediately. Rowan Williams has the hottest take of all time when he explains with perfect sense why Myshkin is the on real evil character in The Idiot.
(Btw Julia Kristeva, "a bulgarian-french philosopher," doesn't even hold a candle to the thought and perception of Rowan Williams)
Every day, I am more and more convinced that Philosophy is the dumbest subject on earth.
I think that while every book leaves a small mark on the unconscious of a reader, there are a few you read throughout your life that you remember and think back on constantly.
This is one of those books.
What I was really afraid of when I first picked up this book was that it was going to be hardcore christian/orthodox apologetics. I was worried that Mr. Williams would instruct me on how to live a life like Alyosha. I quickly realized, not thirty pages in, that this book does not cast a moral judgment in the slightest. It says, here is Dostoevsky, here is his thought, and here is why I(Rowan Williams) think his characters act this way. And it's not abstract Philosophy either. I don't have to deduce or reduce or do thought experiments. More based on feeling(the only way books should be)
Anyway, there's way too much to review here, but if you want an interesting take on ALL of Dostoevsky, buy this book immediately. Rowan Williams has the hottest take of all time when he explains with perfect sense why Myshkin is the on real evil character in The Idiot.
(Btw Julia Kristeva, "a bulgarian-french philosopher," doesn't even hold a candle to the thought and perception of Rowan Williams)