LARTS 474 Crime & Punishment: 19th-century Political Philosphy
The one-credit class “Crime and Punishment” offers students the opportunity to read and discuss one of the major works of modern social, political, and philosophical literature in the context of 19th century European politics and society. Students will read Dostoyevsky’s great novel as his contemporaries did: week by week, following the descent of his anti-hero, Raskolnikov, into poverty, crime, and degradation in a world where values seem to have no meaning, and purpose to have no value.