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.

• Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky’s Quest for Realism Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana EvdokimovaI. Encounters with Science1. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia’s Radical YouthDavid Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson2. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost SheepLiza Knapp3. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of BrotherhoodAnna 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) BeliefDavid S. Cunningham7. Dostoevsky as Moral PhilosopherCharles Larmore8. “If there’s no immortality of the soul . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s IdeaSergei A. KibalnikIII. Questions of Aesthetics9. Once Again about Dostoevsky’s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dead Body of Christ in the TombRobert L. Jackson10. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail KatkovSusanne Fusso11. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of IncarnationSvetlana EvdokimovaIV. The Self and the Other12. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The DoubleGary Saul Morson13. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov ParadigmYuri Corrigan14. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of KalganovMichal Oklot15. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and PunishmentVladimir Golstein16. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the DeadCarol 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 EchoesInessa MedzhibovskayaV. Intercultural Connections19. Achilles in Crime and PunishmentDonna Orwin20. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding)Olga Meerson21. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a SymptomMarina Kostalevsky

"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."