Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-305) and index.
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Ch. 1. Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Metaphysics of Inertia -- Ch. 2. The Force of Inertia: Dostoevsky's Confessional Heroes and the "Tragedy of the Underground" -- Ch. 3. The Resurrection from Inertia in Crime And Punishment -- Ch. 4. The Verdict of Death in The Idiot -- Ch. 5. The Dead Machine of European Civilization: Inertia in The Devils -- Ch. 6. Death by Ice: The Poetics of Entropy in The Adolescent -- Ch. 7. The Dimensions of Providence in The Brothers Karamazov -- Ch. 8. Afterword: "Except a Corn of Wheat."