This book offers the first comprehensive account of Dostoevsky's philosophical outlook. Drawing on the writer's novels and, more so than other scholars, on his essays, letters, and notebooks, Scanlan examines Dostoevsky's beliefs.
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This book offers the first comprehensive account of Dostoevsky's philosophical outlook. Drawing on the writer's novels and, more so than other scholars, on his essays, letters, and notebooks, Scanlan examines Dostoevsky's beliefs.
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Very Good in As New jacket. Most Dostoevsky criticism proceeds from Dostoevsky the great literary artist to the great philosophical insights that spun out of his creations. James Scanlan has chosen to reverse this sequence and examine Dostoevsky the great thinker whose philosophical insights were expressed in literary modes (''his novels were about ideas as much as about people'' said Victor Terras). Paying special attention not only to the novels but also to Dostoevsky's notebooks and journals, Scanlan formulates the principle focus of his philosophy as ''anthropomorphic, prompted not by abstract cosmological and epistemological concerns but by an obsession with humanity. wthat it means to be a human being. '' Against the rational materialism burgeoning in late nineteenth-century Russia, Dostoevsky posited human beings as ''moral creatures whose standards of both personal conduct and social relationships were provided by the New Testament image of Jesus Christ. '' Scanlan is a fine guide, thoroughly conversant in all the literature, primary and secondary, English and Russian. And he is not uniformly laudatory; Dostoevsky's reactionary and autocratic political views, and especially his Russian messianism, come in for devastating critique. But ultimately Dostoevsky emerges as one who could philosophically and artistically connect the possibility of faith in God with love of the neighbor, and do so in a way that makes his shortcomings an eccentric oddity and his central insights perennially relevant. Owner inscription, jacket and text appear almost as new.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall A beautiful, crisp, clean hardcover in very good condition; light shelf wear to extremities. DJ in very good condition with mild edge wear.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN: 9780801476709.
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