Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2016

Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky

Science, Religion, Philosophy

Edited by: Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana Evdokimova
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

In the series Ars Rossica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291

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About this book

This volume deals with Dostoevsky’s wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time. It includes contributions by prominent Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy.

Author / Editor information

Vladimir Golstein is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism (1999), Svetlana Aleksievich –The Voice of Soviet Intelligentsia (2015) and numerous articles on major Russian authors. His essays on current political affairs have been published by Forbes, The Nation, Al Jazeera, RT, Antiwar, Alternet, and Russia Insider; he is also a frequent participant in various political TV shows discussing US and Russia’s foreign politics and culture for CCTV’s The Heat, PressTV, RT’s Crosstalk, Al Jazeera, and Channel 4 in Great Britain.

Reviews

Ayse Dietrich, Middle East Technical University, International Journal of Russian Studies Issue no. 6, Jan 2017:

“This valuable book includes very well-researched articles written by the scholars of the field which examine the dialogues of Dostoevky’s personas from aesthetic, philosophical and religious viewpoints. It is a major contribution to the Russian literature associated with Dostoevky’s name and works.” —Ayse Dietrich, International Journal of Russian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1

Michael Marsh-Soloway, University of Virginia, The Russian Review (Vol. 76, No. 3, July 2017):
"I found the volume to be an informative and fascinating read. Students and scholars of Dostoevsky gain new appreciations and understandings by reconciling the established links between Russian literature, science, faith, and humanistic traditions...It would be productive not only for Slavists, but also for specialists from a range of different areas of expertise to publish additional series of this volume to enrich scholarly understanding of the author and his creative, interdisciplinary imagination."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky’s Quest for Realism Svetlana Evdokimova and Vladimir Golstein Open Access Download PDF	1
Part 1. Encounters with Science
I. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia’s Radical Youth David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson Open Access Download PDF	35
II. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost Sheep Liza Knapp Open Access Download PDF	63
III. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood Anna A. Berman Open Access Download PDF	83
IV. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and “Our Dostoevsky” Daniel P. Todes Open Access Download PDF	97
Part 2. Engagements with Philosophy
V. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of “the Meaning of Life” Steven Cassedy Open Access Download PDF	111
VI. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief David S. Cunningham Open Access Download PDF	129
VII. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher Charles Larmore Open Access Download PDF	151
VIII. “If there’s no immortality of the soul, . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s Idea Sergei A. Kibalnik Open Access Download PDF	165
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 Robert Louis Jackson Open Access Download PDF	179
X. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov Susanne Fusso Open Access Download PDF	193
XI. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation Svetlana Evdokimova Open Access Download PDF	213
Part 4. The Self and the Other
XII. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double Gary Saul Morson Open Access Download PDF	235
XIII. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm Yuri Corrigan Open Access Download PDF	249
XIV. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov Michal Oklot Open Access Download PDF	267
XV. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Vladimir Golstein Open Access Download PDF	291
XVI. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead Carol Apollonio Open Access Download PDF	313
XVII. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” Martinsen Open Access Download PDF	329
XVIII. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky—Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes Inessa Medzhibovskaya Open Access Download PDF	343
Part 5: Intercultural Connections
XIX. Achilles in Crime and Punishment Donna Orwin Open Access Download PDF	367
XX. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding) Olga Meerson Open Access Download PDF	379
XXI. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom Marina Kostalevsky Open Access Download PDF	395
Index Open Access Download PDF	403

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 424
Keywords: Dostoevsky; Dostoevskii; literature and science; literature and religion; literature and philosophy; Russian literature; Fedor Dostoevsky

eBook

Published: January 10, 2019
ISBN: 9781644690291