| Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin Contributor(s): Blank, Ksana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810139839 ISBN-13: 9780810139831 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.55 lbs) 174 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin, Ksana Blank borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian dialectical traditions to formulate a dynamic image of Dostoevsky's dialectics--distinct from Hegelian dialectics--as a philosophy of "compatible contradictions." Expanding on the classical triad of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth, Blank guides us through Dostoevsky's most difficult paradoxes: goodness that begets evil, beautiful personalities that bring about grief, and criminality that brings about salvation. Dostoevsky's philosophy of contradictions, this book demonstrates, contributes to the development of antinomian thought in the writings of early twentieth-century Russian religious thinkers and to the development of Bakhtin's dialogism. Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin marks an important and original intervention into the enduring debate over Dostoevsky's spiritual philosophy. |