Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin

ISBN-13: 9780810139831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 174 str.

Ksana Blank

Opis

Borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian dialectical traditions to formulate a dynamic image of Dostoevsky's 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.

Spis treści

• Note on the Transliteration and Sources
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: The Dialectic of Goodness
• Chapter One. "If You Don't Sin, You Can't Repent; If You Don't Repent, You Can't Achieve Salvation"
• Chapter Two. A Ray of Light in the Abyss
• Chapter Three. "The Devil Begins with Froth on the Lips of an Angel"
• Part II: The Dialectic of Beauty
• Chapter Four. The Corridor of Mirrors in The Idiot
• Chapter Five. A Grain of Eros in the Madonna, a Spark of Beauty in Sodom
• Part III: The Dialectic of Truth
• Chapter Six. Dostoevsky's Case for Contradictions
• Chapter Seven. Antinomic Truth (Istina)
• Concluding Notes
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index