This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoy’s unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality, as presented in his numerous literary and his philosophico-religious works. The collection includes twelve contributions, especially written for this collection, and its contributors are writers, philosophers, literary critics, and experts for Russian literature. Six of the essays examine Tolstoy’s literary works, while the other six scrutinize more closely his philosophical views. The two central foci of examinations of the included essays are The Kreutzer Sonata and The Kingdom of God is within You.
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Examines Leo Tolstoy's unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality, as presented in his numerous literary and his philosophico-religious works. Six of the essays examine Tolstoy's literary works, while the other six scrutinize more closely his philosophical views.
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AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1. But to Continue the Life—For What Purpose? Mikhail Shishkin2. Tolstoy’s Fiction: Its Spiritual Legacy Rosamund Bartlett3. What Is the Good According to Tolstoy, and How Good Can I Be? Donna Tussing Orwin4. Tolstoy’s Unorthodox Catechesis: English Novels Liza Knapp5. Tolstoy and Diderot on Women as “Dangerous Objects” Miran Bozovic6. Tolstoy’s Divine Madness: An Analysis of The Kreutzer Sonata Predrag Cicovacki7. The Kreutzer Sonata, Sexual Morality, and MusicAlexandra Smith8. A Prophet of the Family: Vasily Rozanov Reads Tolstoy Diana Dukhanova9. The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Death and Authentic Life Božidar Kante10. Tolstoy’s Spiritual Nonviolence Robert L. Holmes11. Three Attempts on Carthage: Tolstoy’s Designs of Nonviolent Destruction Inessa Medzhibovskaya12. Tolstoy’s Philosophical Legacy An Interview with Abdusalam A. GuseynovIndex
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ISBN
9781618118707
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2018-12-06
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Academic Studies Press
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155 mm
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234 mm
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G, 01
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Engelsk
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264
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Predrag Cicovacki is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of ten books, including The Luminosity of Love (2018), Gandhi’s Footprints(2015), and Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life (2012).
Heidi Nada Grek is a PhD candidate in German and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include Goethe’s Faust, the European epic tradition, and world literature. She is also a co-translator (from Serbian) of Laza Kostić, The Basic Principle (2016).