The Complete Philosophy of Dostoevsky | A Sleep Documentary

He was marched in front of a firing squad, handed his life back at the last possible second — and spent the next thirty years asking one dangerous question: in a world without God, is everything permitted? This is the whole of Dostoevsky — his life, his novels, his unanswerable questions — told slowly, in a low voice, for a long night in the dark. A calm, unhurried walk through everything Fyodor Dostoevsky ever worked out: the mock execution, the years of Siberian prison, the epilepsy, the ruinous gambling, and out of all of it the deepest map of the human soul ever written. The Underground Man. Raskolnikov and his axe. Ivan handing God back his ticket. The Grand Inquisitor. A descent into freedom, guilt, faith and doubt, made to be listened to at the very edge of sleep — gripping enough to hold you, gentle enough to let you drift. Stay for all three hours, or fall asleep somewhere in the middle. Both are how it's meant to be heard. CHAPTERS 0:00 — A Minute Left to Live 5:37 — The House Among the Dying 14:33 — A New Gogol 24:15 — Five Minutes 34:38 — The Only Book 44:50 — The Holy Second 53:39 — The Man in the Basement 1:04:12 — The Axe 1:14:31 — Lazarus 1:25:21 — The Beautiful Man 1:36:37 — The Stenographer 1:46:12 — The Coming Century 1:56:18 — The Furnace 2:06:23 — Returning the Ticket 2:15:36 — The Kiss 2:26:18 — Active Love 2:36:12 — Everything He Ever Thought SOURCES Dostoevsky's novels, letters, notebooks, and A Writer's Diary; Joseph Frank's five-volume biography; and Anna Dostoevskaya's memoir. Where the historical record is genuinely uncertain — how his father died, when his illness began — the narration says so plainly rather than guessing. If a piece made this way feels worth making, a quiet subscribe helps it find the next person who can't sleep. #Dostoevsky #Philosophy #SleepDocumentary #Existentialism #FallAsleep #PhilosophyForSleep