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Dostoevsky's dialectics and the problem of sin /

0810126931

9780810126930

Dostoevsky's dialectics and the problem of sin /

[Book]

Ksana Blank.

Evanston, Ill. :

Northwestern University Press,

2010.

x, 170 pages :

illustrations ;

25 cm.

Studies in Russian literature and theory

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-162) and index.

Introduction: -- Approaches to Dostoevsky -- Why dialectics? -- A model for Dostoevsky's dialectics -- Thesis, antithesis, and sin -- The principle of Dvuedinstvo (duality-in-unity) -- Antinomies of goodness, beauty, and truth -- Bakhtin's dialogism and Dostoevsky's (non-Hegelian) dialectics -- How this book is structured -- A word on methodology -- Part 1: The dialectic of goodness -- 1. "If you don't sin, you can't repent; if you don't repent, you can't achieve salvation" -- Controversies about the epilogue to Crime and punishment -- Saint Andrew of Crete and Dostoevsky's great sinners -- Raskolnikov at the door of repentance -- 2. A ray of light in the abyss -- Dmitry Karamazov's journey to the underworld -- The turning point -- The way of the grain -- 3. "The devil begins with froth on the lips of an angel" -- The cherub Alyosha Karamazov -- From saints to sinners: The spectrum of possibilities -- The novel's ending in light of the projected sequel -- Part 2: The dialectic of beauty -- 4. The corridor of mirrors in The idiot -- Krasivoe and Prekrasnoe: Two conceptions of beauty -- Beauty and charm (Prelest') -- Beauty, passion, and compassion: The novel's finale -- 5. A grain of eros in the Madonna, a spark of beauty in Sodom -- Madonna and Sodom -- The European aesthetic ideal of the Madonna -- The Madonna cult in Russian literature -- Part 3: The dialectic of truth -- 6. Dostoevsky's case for contradictions -- Pravda and Istina, two conceptions of truth -- High and low truth (Pravda) in notes from underground -- The birth of polarities in "The dream of a ridiculous man" -- 7. Antinomic truth (Istina) -- The principle of contradiction in Russian religious thought -- Pavel Florensky and Mikhail Bakhtin on antinomic (dialogic) truth -- Two truths in The Brothers Karamazov: Pro and contra.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881-- Criticism and interpretation.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881-- Philosophy.

Dostoevskiĭ, Fedor Mikhaĭlovich,1821-1881-- Studies.

Dostoevskij, Fedor M.

Dostoevskij, Fedor Michajlovič-- Dialektik.

Dostoevskij, Fedor Michajlovič-- Motiv-- Sünde.

Dostoevskij, Fedor Michajlovič-- Philosophie und Weltanschauung.

Dostoevskij, Fedor Michajlovič-- Religion.

Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič, 1821-1881

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881.

Dialectic in literature.

Paradox in literature.

Sin in literature.

Das Böse.

Das Gute.

Dialectic in literature.

Dialektik

Dialektik.

Dualismus

Dualität.

Paradox in literature.

Paradoxon.

Philosophy.

Reue.

Schönheit.

Sin in literature.

Sünde

Sünde.

Wahrheit.

Blank, Ksana.

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