Tag: Dostoevsky

Free Download Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics By Evgenia Cherkasova
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

Free Download Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Gathering Storm (1846-1847) : A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism
by Thomas Gaiton Marullo
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1501751859 | 270 Pages | True ePUB | 0.6 MB

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.

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.

Free Download Vadim Shneyder, "Russia’s Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov "
English | ISBN: 0810142481 | 2020 | 248 pages | PDF | 979 KB
Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia’s industrial revolution. During Russia’s first tumultuous transition to capitalism, social problems became issues of literary form for writers trying to make sense of economic change. The new environments created by industry, such as giant factories and mills, demanded some kind of response from writers but defied all existing forms of language.