Book Review: Conversations with Dostoevsky by George Pattison
Andrew Watson engages with an innovative new book which explores Dostoevsky’s relevance to our contemporary world.
Published in [BESHARA MAGAZINE]
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov (1872). Image: IanDagnall Computing / Alamy Stock Photo
EXCERPT
“Dostoevsky asserted more than once that understanding is achieved primarily through the heart, rather than the rational mind, and the dry and dispassionate intellectualism (in his view) of the West was a particular object of his contempt, seeing it as a dilution of our humanity.”