Dostoevsky's Political Thought

Richard Avramenko is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Courage: the Politics of Life and Limb, the coeditor of Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought, and author of numerous articles on ancient and continental political thought in literature.Lee Trepanier is an associate professor of political science at Saginaw Valley State University. He is author of Russian Political Symbols, co-author with Lynita K. Newswander of LDS in USA: Mormonism and the Making of American Culture, and editor and co-editor of several volumes, the latest being Teaching in an Age of Ideology (co-edited with John von Heyking), Eric Voegelin and the Modern Continental Tradition (co-edited with Steven McGuire), and Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization (co-edited with Khalil Habib).

This collection explores a series of contentions that Dostoevsky expounded primarily in his novels beginning with Crime and Punishment and concluding with The Brothers Karamazov.

• 1.Introduction to Dostoevsky’s Political Philosophy – Lee TrepanierPart I: Dostoevsky’s Political Theology2.Dostoevsky’s Discovery Of The Christian Foundation Of Politics – David Walsh3.The Politics and Experience of Active Love in The Brothers Karamazov – Lee Trepanier4.This Star Will Shine Forth From the East: Dostoevsky and the Politics of Humility – Jack Moran5.Dostoevsky’s Heroines: or, on the Compassion of the Russian Woman – Richard Avramenko and Jingcai YingPart II: Dostoevsky’s Political Philosophy6.Philosophical Anthropology and Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” – Ellis Sandoz7.Ugliness, Emptiness and Boredom: Dostoyevsky on the Secular Humanist Social Religion – Ethan Alexander-Davey8.Between Compassion and Misanthropy: On Moral Reasoning in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment – Khalil Habib9.Freedom from Freedom: on the Metaphysics of Liberty in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment – Richard AvramenkoPart III: Dostoevsky and the Modern Hermeneutic10.S