Book · 1994 · Fiction
Notes from Underground
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Dostoevsky knew this because when he wrote Notes from Underground, which I would highly recommend to everyone who's listening, it's a great book and it's a very short book.
Jordan Peterson · The Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 2018 Listen at 33:09 What they say about it
- Short and easy to read“it's a very short book”3
- Highly recommend reading“highly recommend reading it”2
- Critique of socialist utopia“socialist visions of Utopia”2
The best things said about it
Highly recommend reading it where it basically just delves into the psychology of resentment and the weird shapes that it can take in your own psyche and the conclusions it can lead you to.
Dosstofki, his notes from the underground, one of the most famous of his books because it's it's so short and easy to read, originally contained a chapter which essentially argued for the necessity of Christianity as Joski saw it, but it was censored and and taken out and so you end up with this sort of quite fully nihilistic tract.
In Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky famously pointed out that if we did bring about the socialist utopia and he described that as the endless opportunity to sit in pools of bubbling water, busy ourselves with the continuation of the species and eat nothing but cake, that human beings would break it all.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Dec 2023 But Fyodor Dostoevsky in Notes from the Underground uh talks about a person who is literally paralyzed by the fact that he is aware of just how inadequate he is.
And when you foster that too long you get that there's a book called uh what is it man from underground by dostoevsky I might be misnaming the book but it's about the bitterness of a man it's like it breathes within his mind and it just grows that bitterness.
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Why people recommend it
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a foundational existential novella that explores the depths of human alienation, paradoxical free will, and psychological spite. Jordan Peterson frequently referenced the novel across multiple podcast appearances, including The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, and The Joe Rogan Experience, describing Dostoevsky as a prophetic author and calling the book an unbelievably compelling, short, and transformative work of fiction that everyone should read. Peterson used the text to discuss human nature, socialist utopias, and the dangers of utopian thinking. Angelo Somers also strongly recommended the book on Modern Wisdom, explaining that it brilliantly delves into the psychology of resentment and the strange shapes it takes in the human psyche, noting an insightful passage where Dostoevsky observed that people would willingly dismantle a utopia just to experience something unexpected. Additionally, guests like Alex O'Connor and Joe Folley discussed the historical context and abstract passages of the text on Modern Wisdom, with O'Connor noting how censorship altered early versions of the work to remove explicit arguments for Christianity.
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Jordan Peterson dostoevsky knew this because when he wrote notes from underground which i would highly recommend to everyon… 11
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“So, Dostoyevsky wrote a very famous book called Notes from Underground, and in Dostoyevsky was an absolute prophet.”
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“For me, Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist, sort of top of that list. His books, The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground, The Devils, are unbelievably compelling works of fiction and they're deep.”
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“- Envy's a really bad one. Pride and envy are among the worst. Those are the sins of Cain, by the way, in the story of Cain and Abel 'cause Cain fails because his sacrifices are insufficient.”
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“- Which is why a lot of young people try it out. You know, the reason is you get older and older, you realize that there's a huge cost to that, so you don't do it.”
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“because the question that's posed in the abrahamic story at the beginning is the question that dovi an asked about socialism in Notes from Underground”
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“one of the things that I found particularly striking about Dostoevsky, especially in Notes from Underground, is he Speaking of the devils and demons, yeah.”
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“and that's the problem with socialist visions of Utopia that people like dovi laid out in the late 1800s know in in Notes from Underground”
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“People like Dostoevsky outlined in the late 1800s: in 'Notes from Underground', Dostoevsky famously pointed out that if we did bring about the socialist utopia and he described that as the endless opportunity to sit in pools of bubbling water, busy ourselves with the continuation of the species and eat nothing but cake, that human beings would break it all”
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“so dostoevsky said in notes from the underground one of the most insightful passages”
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“this is dostoyevsky raised this in notes from underground it's a great short book and he created short”
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“dostoevsky knew this because when he wrote notes from underground which i would highly recommend to everyone who's listening it's a great book and it's a very short book”
Angelo Somers there's a a book notes notes from underground by doski that captures this exact sentiment perfectly. Um, hi… 2
Recommended
“there's a a book notes notes from underground by doski that captures this exact sentiment perfectly. Um, highly recommend reading it where it basically just delves into the psychology of of resentment and and the weird shapes that it can take in your own psyche and the conclusions it can lead you to and just the sentiments, the kind of”
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“there's a great um part in I think it was in notes from underground as well where DSTI is talking about um a potential utopia and he said you could give people all the land all the houses and allow them to busy themselves with the eating of cake and the reproduction of their species and they would burn it”
Joe Folley I spent like three to five hours with this guy who's just a bastard. 3
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“And I think that there's something about say ”
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“I spent like three to five hours with this guy who's just a bastard. ”
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“So again, this is a really prominent theme in notes from underground. ”
Lex Fridman - If there's a young man in their twenties listening to this, how do they escape the pull of Dostoevsky's "… 3
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“- If there's a young man in their twenties listening to this, how do they escape the pull of Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground"?”
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“- In Dostoevsky, "Notes From Underground." -”
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“notes from underground as well”
Alex O’Connor Dosstofki, his notes from the underground, one of the most famous of his books because it's it's so short a… 1
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“Dosstofki, his notes from the underground, one of the most famous of his books because it's it's so short and easy to read, originally contained a chapter which essentially argued for the necessity of Christianity as Joski saw it, but it was censored and and taken out and so you end up with this sort of quite fully nihilistic tract.”
Christina Pazsitzky do youri I love um Notes from Underground the the opening to it 1
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“do youri I love um Notes from Underground the the opening to it”
John Vervaeke And maybe we could do that by referring to the Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov, as long as we pu… 1
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“And maybe we could do that by referring to the Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov, as long as we put it together with Notes from Underground, which I just taught for a course. I did a course on literature in the meaning crisis, and so I that you use notes.”
Kelsi Sheren and when you foster that too long you get that there's a book called uh what is it man from underground by… 1
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“and when you foster that too long you get that there's a book called uh what is it man from underground by dostoevsky I might be misnaming the book but it's about the bitterness of a man it's like it breathes within his mind and it just grows that bitterness”
Peter Kreeft well in in Notes from Underground Dostoevsky Nails this to a because he says and that's so brilliant 1
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“well in in Notes from Underground Dostoevsky Nails this to a because he says and that's so brilliant”
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“But Fyodor Dostoevsky in Notes from the Underground uh talks about a person who is literally paralyzed by the fact that he is aware of just how inadequate he is.”
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“I reread parts of it for this review and I also reread some of two other books that I really love that are uh I think antecedents of it which are sarts nausea and dust's Notes from Underground”