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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.


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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Note on the Transliteration and Sources
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 3-24
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  1. PART I: The Dialectic of Goodness
  1. Chapter One: “If You Don’t Sin, You Can’t Repent; If You Don’t Repent, You Can’t Achieve Salvation”
  2. pp. 27-39
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  1. Chapter Two: A Ray of Light in the Abyss
  2. pp. 40-51
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  1. Chapter Three: “The Devil Begins with Froth on the Lips of an Angel”
  2. pp. 52-66
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  1. Part II: The Dialectic of Beauty
  1. Chapter Four: The Corridor of Mirrors in The Idiot
  2. pp. 69-79
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  1. Chapter Five: A Grain of Eros in the Madonna, a Spark of Beauty in Sodom
  2. pp. 80-93
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  1. Part III: The Dialectic of Truth
  1. Chapter Six: Dostoevsky’s Case for Contradictions
  2. pp. 97-110
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  1. Chapter Seven: Antinomic Truth (Istina)
  2. pp. 111-120
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  1. Concluding Notes
  2. pp. 121-124
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 125-150
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  1. Selected Bibliography
  2. pp. 151-162
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 163-170
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