Academic Studies Press Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy (Ars Rossica Series)

Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky is 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 nineteenth-century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky’s 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. Dostoevsky’s 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 Dostoevsky’s real or imaginative dialogues with aesthetic, philosophic, and scientific thought of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, revealing Dostoevsky’s forward looking thought, as it finds its echoes in modern literary theory, philosophy, theology and science. Review "This valuable book includes very well-researched articles written by the scholars of the field which examine the dialogues of Dostoevky's personas from aesthetic, philosophical and religious viewpoints. It is a major contribution to the Russian literature associated with Dostoevky's name and works." --Ayse Dietrich, International Journal of Russian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1--Ayse Dietrich, Middle East Technical University, International Journal of Russian Studies Issue no. 6, Jan 2017 "International Journal of Russian Studies " "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."--Michael Marsh-Soloway, University of Virginia, The Russian Review (Vol. 76, No. 3, July 2017) About the Author Vladimir Golstein is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism (1999), Svetlana Aleksievich & The Voice of Soviet Intelligentsia (2015) and numerous articles on major Russian authors. His essays on current political affairs have been published by Forbes, The Nation, Al Jazeera, RT, Antiwar, Alternet, and Russia Insider; he is also a frequent participant in various political TV shows discussing US and Russia's foreign politics and culture for CCTV's The Heat, PressTV, RT's Crosstalk, Al Jazeera, and Channel 4 in Great Britain. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, Svetlana Evdokimova holds PhD from Yale University in Slavic Languages and Literatures and is currently professor of Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her main areas of scholarly interest include, Pushkin, Russian and European Romanticism, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, relations between fiction and history, and gender and sexuality in Russian and European literatures. She is the author of Pushkin's Historical Imagination (Yale University Press), Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies: The Poetics of Brevity, ed. (Wisconsin University Press), and of the wide range of articles on Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. She is currently writing a book on Chekhov's relationship with the Russian intelligentsia and its impact on the formation of his literary self.