Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky

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.

"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. — International Journal of Russian Studies, 8.1 (2019)

• Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky’s Quest for Realism Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana EvdokimovaI. Encounters with Science1. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia’s Radical Youth David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson2. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost Sheep Liza Knapp3. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood Anna A. Berman4. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and “Our Dostoevsky” Daniel P. TodesII. Engagements with Philosophy5. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of “the Meaning of Life” Steven Cassedy6. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief David S. Cunningham7. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher Charles Larmore8. “If there’s no immortality of the soul . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s Idea Sergei A. KibalnikIII. Questions of Aesthetics9. Once Again about Dostoevsky’s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb Robert L. Jackson10. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov Susanne Fusso11. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation Svetlana EvdokimovaIV. The Self and the Other12. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double Gary Saul Morson13. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm Yuri Corrigan14. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov Michal Oklot15. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Vladimir Golstein16. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead Carol Apollonio17. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” Deborah A. Martinsen18. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky—Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes Inessa MedzhibovskayaV. Intercultural Connections19. Achilles in Crime and Punishment Donna Orwin20. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding) Olga Meerson21. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom Marina Kostalevsky