If you're intrigued by Dostoyevsky but can't bring yourself to read any of his lengthy fiction, get a copy of Henri de Lubac's The Drama of Atheist Humanism. It ranks in my top 10 books of all time. The reader will be rewarded with Nietzsche, Feuerbach (the link between Hegel and Marx), Comte, Kierkegaard, and, of course, Dostoyevsky ("Dostoyevsky as Prophet"):
Dostoyevsky made one profoundly important social truth clear: man cannot organise the world for himself without God; without God he can only organise the world against man. Exclusive humanism is inhuman humanism.
