Nicholas Berdyaev

Dostoevsky

by Nicholas Berdyaev

This puts the revolutions in perspective as more than a rush for jeans and fridges. Berdyaev quotes Dostoevsky’s Notes From The Underground, saying: “Man’s whole business is to prove to himself that he is a man and not a cogwheel.” Berdyaev and Dostoevsky focus on the freedom we have to choose between good and evil and this makes the book relevant not only to 1989 but to today as well, because, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a reluctance among people - both 'underground' and “overground” to accept the burden of responsibility that comes with freedom.

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