In this Book
- Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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.
Table of Contents
- Note on the Transliteration and Sources
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 3-24
- PART I: The Dialectic of Goodness
- Part II: The Dialectic of Beauty
- Part III: The Dialectic of Truth
- Chapter Seven: Antinomic Truth (Istina)
- pp. 111-120
- Concluding Notes
- pp. 121-124
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 151-162
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2010