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Dostoevsky and social and metaphysical freedom
- Title
- Dostoevsky and social and metaphysical freedom / Tatyana Buzina.
- Author
- Buzina, Tatyana.
- Publication
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2003.
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Details
- Description
- iv, 325 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In asserting people's responsibility for their actions, and ultimately their fate, Buzina (global studies, Trinity College) contends that Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81) constantly argues with his characters, who sometimes adhere to different and often much more deterministic representations of fate. She describes the full spectrum of ideas about fate encountered in his works, in order to demonstrate their interrelation, to trace their evolution, and to show how characters fluctuate between different notions of fate. Drawing on both anthropological and literary approaches, she juxtaposes his ideas with those of German philosopher Schelling. The text is double spaced. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
- Series Statement
- Studies in Slavic languages and literature ; v. 22
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Slavic language and literature ; v. 22.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-316) and index.
- Contents
- Free will and deification -- Dostoevsky's romantic model : Schelling's philosophy of freedom -- the cornerstone of romanticism ; Dostoevsky and Job's tragic freedom -- Luck, destiny, fate and doom in the Russian folk worldview : Fatalistic beliefs -- approach and general overview ; "Collectivism" vs. "personalism" in the Russian folk worldview ; "Luck" -- the original fatalistic concept ; "Destiny" -- death and deification ; "Fate" -- the death of gods ; "Doom" -- the life-span of the universe -- Notes from the House of the Dead -- a study in fate and freedom : The elite and the folk -- an unexpected convergence ; "Akul'ka's husband" -- love, money, or love of money? ; The elite and the folk -- in search of common ground -- Between luck, destiny and chance : Destiny and chance -- deterioration of the heroic fatalistic beliefs in The Gambler ; The Brothers Karamazov and the hero of our time -- choice and indetermination ; The Brothers Karamazov -- movement from common to heroic -- The Brothers Karamazov : the final synthesis.
- ISBN
- 0773466436
- 9780773466432
- LCCN
- 2003054441
- OCLC
- ocm52514437
- 52514437
- SCSB-1312659
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library