Questions on Crime and Punishment Book Two A question, adapted from Hannah Arendt (The Life of the Mind: Volume One: Thinking): What does Raskolnikov seek throughout Crime and Punishment? Does he seek meaning, or does he seek truth? Is there any difference between meaning and truth? Think about this: man expresses the activity of his […]
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Crime and Punishment
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Apr 2011
C and P Book I
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Feb 2011
These are some excerpts from the first in a series of “lectures” that I will be discussing with the senior class at St. Greg’s. Raskolnikov’s “Own New Word” I feel that some kind of introduction to the novel itself is an appropriate introduction to this novel. One of the characteristics of the novel itself is […]
