Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy ISBN: 9781644690291 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Academic Studies Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Language & Literature ; Slavic Studies;
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.
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.
