{"title":"XIII. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm","authors":"Yuri Corrigan","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-015","url":null,"abstract":"Indwelling Self/Relational Self Among studies of Dostoevsky’s conception of personality, two largely incompatible and equally influential schools of thought can be discerned. On the one hand, Dostoevsky has been read as a neo-Romantic “expressivist” who situated the roots of the personality, and of the world itself, in the inexhaustible depths of the “human soul.”1 The elder Zosima’s teaching in The Brothers Karamazov on the organic nature of the personality whose roots “touch other worlds” provides a vivid illustration of this view: Zosima describes our “secret innermost sensation” of a “connection with . . . a celestial and higher world,” and our sense that “the roots of our thoughts and feelings are not here, but in those other worlds” (PSS, 14:291).2 It was in this mystical Romantic vein that Vladimir Solovyov","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"35 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":"134104863","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":"XI. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation","authors":"S. Evdokimova","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-013","url":null,"abstract":"The Struggle over Aesthetic Ideals “Alyosha, do you believe than I am not merely a buffoon?—I do believe that you are not merely a buffoon.”1 With these words Dostoevsky undoubtedly anticipated the reader’s temptation to view Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov as nothing more than a buffoon, for the characters in the novel, including Karamazov the father himself, and the narrator of The Brothers Karamazov frequently refer to Fyodor’s scandalous behaviour as buffoonery. I propose, however, to consider Fyodor not only as a traditional carnivalesque fool but as a character who poses questions of modern aesthetics. I interpret his behavior as artifice in the context of Dostoevsky’s critique of the modern crisis of artistic representation. As it has been frequently pointed out, the philosophical thought of Dostoevsky owes a great deal to the Platonic tradition. I suggest that the contradictory aesthetic ideas expressed in Th e Brothers Karamazov reflect the crisis of Platonic aesthetics and of Romantic representation. The “Pro et Contra” of The Brothers","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"9 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":"129533181","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":"XVI. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead","authors":"C. Apollonio","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-018","url":null,"abstract":"1. “They were almost obliterated socially. They became permanently withdrawn, and they lived as outcasts—regularly set upon, as if inviting abuse.”1 2. They “lose the ability to initiate behavior of any kind—to organize their own lives around activity and purpose. Chronic apathy, lethargy, depression, and despair often result. . . . They have difficulties with ‘irrational anger.’ Many . . . become consumed with revenge fantasies.”2 3. “He observed himself becoming neurotically possessive about his little space, at times putting his life in jeopardy by flying into a rage if a guard happened to step on his bed. He brooded incessantly, thinking back on all the mistakes he’d made in life, his regrets, his offenses against God and family” (about Terry Anderson’s experience of solitary confinement as a hostage of Hezbollah in Lebanon).3 4 “Paranoia, aggressive fantasies, and impulse control problems . . .”4","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"150 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":"116365310","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":"XII. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double","authors":"G. S. Morson","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-014","url":null,"abstract":"“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me,” wrote Pascal.2 Somehow, the “I” that is my universe is located at an infinitesimal point. How can infinity be so compact? In War and Peace, Pierre finds this mystery comic. Captured by the French, and seated by a campfire, he bursts into laughter: “They took me and shut me up . . . Who is ‘me’? . . . Me—is my immortal soul!” Pierre looks around at the fields, forest, “the bright shimmering horizon luring one on to infinity,” and thinks, “And all that is within me, and is me! . . . And they caught all that and put it in a shed and barricaded it with planks!”3 The moment provokes Pierre’s laughter because the fact it reports—consciousness located in a body—is absurd. It is unbelievable but true, which is a contradiction. And it is also both outlandish and the most common thing in the world. The fact that Pierre laughs, as if for the first time, at something we all know is what provokes the reader’s","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"30 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":"123044144","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":"II. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost Sheep","authors":"Liza B. Knapp","doi":"10.1515/9781644690291-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690291-004","url":null,"abstract":"Against the background of work by Gillian Beer, George Levine, and others on Darwin’s plots and evolutionary narrative in the English novel, what follows explores the relationship of Darwin’s plots to Dostoevsky’s.1 The concern is not with how Dostoevsky responded to Darwin as a scientist, for, in fact, as others have documented, Dostoevsky was receptive to Darwin’s science.2 Evolution as such was not a stumbling block. As Dostoevsky saw it, all that mattered was the breath of God—whether we come from a lump of clay, Adam’s rib, or monkeys was immaterial. What mattered was the freedom and responsibility instilled with that breath, given the possibility that, in Dostoevsky’s words, “through his sins,","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"39 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":"131642055","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":"Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding)","authors":"Olga А. Meerson","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2175qsg.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2175qsg.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131924690","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":"The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment","authors":"Vladimir Golstein","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2175qsg.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2175qsg.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115810,"journal":{"name":"Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125321230","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}