Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)

Blank, Ksana

Northwestern University Press（2018/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 174 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780810139831
• DDC分類 891.733

Full Description

In Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin, Ksana Blank borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian dialectical traditions to formulate a dynamic image of Dostoevsky's dialectics—distinct from Hegelian dialectics—as a philosophy of "compatible contradictions." Expanding on the classical triad of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth, Blank guides us through Dostoevsky's most difficult paradoxes: goodness that begets evil, beautiful personalities that bring about grief, and criminality that brings about salvation.

Dostoevsky's philosophy of contradictions, this book demonstrates, contributes to the development of antinomian thought in the writings of early twentieth-century Russian religious thinkers and to the development of Bakhtin's dialogism. Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin marks an important and original intervention into the enduring debate over Dostoevsky's spiritual philosophy.

Contents

Note on the Transliteration and Sources
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Dialectic of Goodness
Chapter One. "If You Don't Sin, You Can't Repent; If You Don't Repent, You Can't Achieve Salvation"
Chapter Two. A Ray of Light in the Abyss
Chapter Three. "The Devil Begins with Froth on the Lips of an Angel"
Part II: The Dialectic of Beauty
Chapter Four. The Corridor of Mirrors in The Idiot
Chapter Five. A Grain of Eros in the Madonna, a Spark of Beauty in Sodom
Part III: The Dialectic of Truth
Chapter Six. Dostoevsky's Case for Contradictions
Chapter Seven. Antinomic Truth (Istina)
Concluding Notes
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index