{"title":"XIV. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov","authors":"Michał Okłot","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115309955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VIII. “If there’s no immortality of the soul, . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s Idea","authors":"S. Kibalnik","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-010","url":null,"abstract":"In its various versions, the popular formula “If there is no God, . . . everything is lawful” is presented in many of Dostoevsky’s works. It plays an especially significant role in his novel The Brothers Karamazov. It is commonly known that Dostoevsky determined “the main question which is asked” to be “the question of God’s existence” (PSS, 29[1]:117).1 As he confessed, that was the question that tormented him all his life. In the second book of Brothers Karamazov, Piotr Miusov recites the words of Ivan Karamazov, who claimed,","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125629459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XVIII. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky—Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes","authors":"Inessa Medzhibovskaya","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122412774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XXI. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom","authors":"Marina Kostalevsky","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126913455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"V. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of “the Meaning of Life”","authors":"Steven Cassedy","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-007","url":null,"abstract":"It appears innocent enough. In the conversation leading up to the famous metaphysical challenges in the “Rebellion” chapter of The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan responds to his brother Alyosha’s assertion that we must all love life. “Love life more than its meaning [smysl ee]?” Ivan asks. “Certainly,” Alyosha answers, “love it before logic, as you say. Certainly it has to be before logic, and only then will I understand the meaning [smysl poimu].”1 Today we take no notice of the English phrase “meaning of life,” or its Russian equivalent (smysl zhizni), so widespread has its use been for so long, and we’re unlikely to think a Russian author in the 1870s was doing anything unusual when he used it, just as we’re unlikely to pause, when we read it, to wonder what it means. But what does it mean here, in this dialogue? Ivan is distinguishing life itself from the meaning of life, apparently insisting that to love one is not the same as to love the other. He understands his brother to be placing a higher value on loving life itself than on loving the meaning of life, suggesting that the meaning of life—or at least a concern for it—somehow falls short of just plain life—and","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132204234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"III. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood","authors":"Anna A. Berman","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-005","url":null,"abstract":"As Darwinian thought took root across Europe and Russia in the 1860s after the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859), intellectuals wrestled with the troubling implications the “struggle for existence” held for human harmony and love. How could people be expected to “love their neighbors” if that love ran counter to science? Was that love even commendable if it counteracted the perfection of the human race through the process of natural selection? And if Darwinian struggle was supposed to be most intense among those who were closest and had the most shared resources to compete for, what hope did this hold for the family? Darwin’s Russian contemporaries were particularly averse the idea that members of the same species were in competition. As Daniel Todes, James Rogers, and Alexander Vucinich have argued, Russian thinkers attempted to reject the Malthusian side of Darwin’s theory.1 Situated in the harsh, vast expanses of Russia, rather than on the crowded, verdant British Isles, they","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123629016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"X. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov","authors":"S. Fusso","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-012","url":null,"abstract":"As the editor of the Russian Herald, Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov was one of the most important figures in the development of the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Fathers and Sons, the first parts of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and the major novels of Dostoevsky all appeared in the pages of his journal. But it seems impossible for us to evaluate his role without emotional distortion. Our understanding of Katkov’s literary activity and contribution has been greatly complicated by his vigorous political activity. In parallel with his literary efforts, as the editor of the newspaper the Moscow News he was a towering political figure who advocated Russian nationalism and autocracy and agitated vigorously against radical and revolutionary movements. Because of this, seventy years of Soviet-era Russian literary history had to treat him as persona non grata. His literary role was consistently minimized or presented in its most unfavorable light. The situation in the West has been somewhat similar. Throughout the twentieth century, Western literary scholars tried to take a critical, objective approach to the ideologically constrained productions of Soviet scholars while X","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114931488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XVII. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”","authors":"Martinsen","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-019","url":null,"abstract":"Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” is a philosophical tale that explores the emotional dynamics of its eponymous first-person narrator. “Dream” recounts the story of a “vile Petersburgian” infected by Western Enlightenment thinking who sees a little star in the dark sky, decides to commit suicide, encounters a little girl who begs him for help, feels pity then anger, drives her away, returns home, speculates about his emotions, has a dream vision of an Edenic paradise that floods him with love, and awakens with a thirst for life.1 His story recounts the conversion of a fallen man whose journey of self-knowledge gives him a life-saving dream vision that includes a version of the Christian myth of paradise, fall, and redemption. His story reflects Dostoevsky’s message that beauty can save us: the Ridiculous Man starts with","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130654079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IX. Once Again about Dostoevsky’s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb","authors":"R. Jackson","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-011","url":null,"abstract":"Holbein’s Augustine in his on the problem of","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115965680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}