Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky : Science, Religion, Philosophy / Svetlana Evdokimova, Vladimir Golstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evdokimova, Svetlana., Editor.

Contributor:

Evdokimova, Svetlana, Editor.

Golstein, Vladimir, Editor.

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Series:

Ars Rossica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Dostoevskii.

Dostoevsky.

Fedor Dostoevsky.

Russian literature.

literature and philosophy.

literature and religion.

literature and science.

Local Subjects:

Dostoevskii.

Dostoevsky.

Fedor Dostoevsky.

Russian literature.

literature and philosophy.

literature and religion.

literature and science.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA Academic Studies Press 2016

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary theory and literature, science and society, scientific and theological components of comparative intellectual history, and aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century Russia form the core of the intellectual framework of this book. Dostoevsky's oeuvre with its wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time emerges as a particularly important case for the study of cross-fertilization among disciplines. The individual chapters explore Dostoevsky's real or imaginative dialogues with aesthetic, philosophic, and scientific thought of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, revealing Dostoevsky's forward looking thought, as it finds its echoes in modern literary theory, philosophy, theology and science.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky's Quest for Realism / Evdokimova, Svetlana / Golstein, Vladimir

Part 1. Encounters with Science

I. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia's Radical Youth / Bethea, David / Thorstensson, Victoria

II. Darwin's Plots, Malthus's Mighty Feast, Lamennais's Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky's Lost Sheep / Knapp, Liza

III. "Viper will eat viper": Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood / Berman, Anna A.

IV. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and "Our Dostoevsky" / Todes, Daniel P.

Part 2. Engagements with Philosophy

V. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of "the Meaning of Life" / Cassedy, Steven

VI. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief / Cunningham, David S.

VII. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher / Larmore, Charles

VIII. "If there's no immortality of the soul, . . . everything is lawful": On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov's Idea / Kibalnik, Sergei A.

Part 3. Questions of Aesthetics

IX. Once Again about Dostoevsky's Response to Hans Holbein the Younger's Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb / Jackson, Robert Louis

X. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky's Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov / Fusso, Susanne

XI. Dostoevsky's Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation / Evdokimova, Svetlana

Part 4. The Self and the Other

XII. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double / Morson, Gary Saul

XIII. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm / Corrigan, Yuri

XIV. Dostoevsky's Angel-Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov / Oklot, Michal

XV. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment / Golstein, Vladimir

XVI. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead / Apollonio, Carol

XVII. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" / Martinsen

XVIII. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky-Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes / Medzhibovskaya, Inessa

Part 5: Intercultural Connections

XIX. Achilles in Crime and Punishment / Orwin, Donna

XX. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac's Binding) / Meerson, Olga

XXI. Prince Myshkin's Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom / Kostalevsky, Marina

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781644690291

1644690292

9781618115270

1618115278

OCLC:

1135586061

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access