#20 – The Underground Spirit
The Martyr Made Podcast
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
In crime and punishment, dostoyevsky refers to madness more than in any of his other books. Raskolnikov extols the ubermench almost point for point, with all the enthusiasm of a freshman in his first philosophy course. His act is meant to show that society's laws don't matter - not that he has no laws of his own. The most famous scene in crime and punishment is one of the most harrowing scenes in literature.
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