Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky Science, Religion, Philosophy (ars Rossica) [Hardcover]

Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevskyis a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevskys thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary theory and literature, science and society, scientific and theological components of comparative intellectual history, and aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century Russia form the core of the intellectual framework of this book. Dostoevskys oeuvre with its wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time emerges as a particularly important case for the study of cross-fertilization among disciplines. The individual chapters explore Dostoevskys real or imaginative dialogues with aesthetic, philosophic, and scientific thought of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, revealing Dostoevskys forward looking thought, as it finds its echoes in modern literary theory, philosophy, theology and science.This volume deals with Dostoevskys wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time. It includes contributions by prominent Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. I found the volume to be an informative and fascinating read. Students and scholars of Dostoevsky gain new appreciations and understandings by reconciling the established links between Russian literature, science, faith, and humanistic traditions...It would be productive not only for Slavists, but also for specialists from a range of different areas of expertise to publish additional series of this volume to enrich scholarly understanding of the author and his creative, interdisciplinary imagination. A specialist lc*