Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin

ISBN-13: 9780810126930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 174 str.

Ksana Blank

Opis

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 bringabout 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.
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