Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature
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🎙️ open.spotify.com/show/70IZA248yNVkrjqzDNm6Lt (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify)
🏫 hardcore-university.teachable.com (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses)
👕 hardcore-literature.creator-spring.com Hardcore Literature Merch
✍🏼 benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website
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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
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Happy reading!


0:00 About the Book Club
0:35 6 parts = 1 per week (13 pages/day)
0:53 C&P as psychological thriller
1:05 split within self & society
1:10 Dostoyevsky vs Tolstoy
2:10 exegesis and hermeneutics
2:50 why read Crime and Punishment
3:07 the prepatory lectures
3:30 the Book Club philosophy
3:35 learning to read the Bible as literature
4:00 "God is dead"
4:05 why read Dostoyevsky in 2021?
5:00 crime and punishment - 2 sides, same coin
5:30 Napoleon and "stepping over" the threshold
6:00 Dostoyevsky in Siberia (and mock execution)
7:00 how Dostoyevsky came to write C&P
7:20 gateway to existential philosophy
7:35 Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger, Camus
8:00 why join Hardcore Literature
9:40 how to join the Book Club