Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky's Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on the Text xi List of Abbreviations of Works by Fyodor Dostoevsky xiii Introduction Speaking with the Devil 3 Part I Chapter One “I Am Not an Expert at Lulling to Sleep”: The Struggle Between Faith and Doubt in Dostoevsky’s Writings 23 Chapter Two “He Gave His Son”: The Problem of the Crucifixion as Child Sacrifice in Dostoevsky 31 Chapter Three Disraeli and the Merchant God: Victims and Villains, Jews and Europe 46 Chapter Four A Synagogue Mistaken for a Church: Dostoevsky’s Demon and the Jews 58 Part II Chapter Five “I Have the Heart of a Lamb”: Roots of the Russian and Jewish Ideas and the Problem of the Crucifixion in Poor Folk 69 Chapter Six “God Sent Her to Us as a Reward for Our Sufferings”: The Origins of Dostoevsky’s Preoccupation with Child Sacrifice in the Dialogue Between Time and The Insulted and Injured 78 Chapter Seven Sources of Dostoevsky’s Antisemitism in Notes from the House of the Dead: The Problem of Redemption and the Resemblance of Christians and Jews 90 Chapter Eight “I Don’t Want Your Sacrifice”: The Morality of the Son in Crime and Punishment 117 Chapter Nine From Prince Christ to the Russian Christ: Problems of Resurrection in The Idiot and the Development of Dostoevsky’s National Messianism 133 Chapter Ten “This Is What I Cannot Bear”: The Obliteration of Moral Distinctions Through the Crucifixion in Demons 144 Chapter Eleven “You Can Buy the Whole World”: Zosima’s Christian Faith and the Jewish Idea in the Diary of a Writer 157 Notes 199 Index 231 ...