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January 10, 2025

Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russianness

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Free Download Sarah Hudspith, "Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russianness"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 041530489X | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.3 mb
This book examines Dostoevsky’s interest in, and engagement with, "Slavophilism" – a Russian mid-nineteenth century movement of conservative nationalist thought. It explores Dostoevsky’s views, as expressed in both his non-fiction and fiction, on the religious, spiritual and moral ideas which he considered to be innately Russian. It concludes that Dostoevsky is an important successor to the Slavophiles, in that he developed their ideas in a more coherent fashion, broadening their moral and spiritual concerns into a more universal message about the true worth of Russia and her people.

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April 25, 2024

Dostoevsky and Kant Dialogues on Ethics

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2009 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 9042026103 | PDF | 3 MB
In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narratives of Dostoevsky, which engage the problem of evil and the claims of human community. She not only produces a novel reading of Dostoevsky, but also guides us to later, often neglected Kantian texts. This study is written with scholarly care, penetrating analysis, elegance of style, and moral urgency: Cherkasova writes with both mind and heart. Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University Social Philosophy (SP), in conjunction with the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice, SUNY Cortland, explores theoretical and applied issues in contemporary social philosophy, drawing on a variety of philosophical traditions

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January 10, 2024

Dostoevsky’s Democracy

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Free Download Dostoevsky’s Democracy by Nancy Ruttenburg
English | July 21, 2008 | ISBN: 0691136149, 0691146640 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 2.7 MB
Dostoevsky’s Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period between the early works of the 1840s and the important novels of the 1860s.

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January 1, 2024

Dostoevsky as Suicidologist Self-Destruction and the Creative Process

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Free Download Amy D. Ronner, "Dostoevsky as Suicidologist: Self-Destruction and the Creative Process "
English | ISBN: 1793607818 | 2021 | 356 pages | EPUB, PDF | 894 KB + 5 MB
In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in Dostoevsky scholarship, but provides fresh readings of Dostoevsky’s major works, including Notes from The House of the Dead, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. Ronner provides an exegesis of how Dostoevsky’s implicit awareness of fatalistic, altruistic, egoistic, and anomic modes of self-destruction helped shape not only his philosophy, but also his craft as a writer. In this study, Ronner contributes to the field of suicidology by anatomizing both self-destructive behavior and suicidal ideation while offering ways to think about prevention. But most expansively, Ronner tackles the formidable task of forging a ligature between artistic creation and the pluripresent social fact of self-annihilation.

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