Section Info: RES-215-01

Course Title: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Evil: The Brothers Karamazov

Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026

Term: Spring Semester 2026

Description: Perhaps no other novelist has delved as deeply into the psychological and metaphysical dimensions of evil as the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. This course will be devoted to a close reading of Dostoevsky's landmark novel of murderous passion and parricide, The Brothers Karamazov. Why should crime and transgression be a privileged avenue of access into the human interior? How is psychology tied to the metaphysical aspect of human existence? What are the sources of evil--and redemption?

Distribution(s): I - Humanities

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Daniel Brooks		dbrooks@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026	Seminar	Tuesday and Thursday	01:45PM - 03:00PM	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Taught in English.

Course Tags

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 18	Enrollment: 17	Available: 0	Waitlist: 9

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.