The annihilation of inertia : Dostoevsky and metaphysics
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The annihilation of inertia : Dostoevsky and metaphysics
（Studies in Russian literature and theory）
Northwestern University Press, 1996
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Bibliography: p. 294-305
Includes index
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Description
This study is an exploration of the dichotomy of faith and science as presented in the writings of the 19th-century Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - Dostoevsky and the metaphysics of inertia
- the force of inertia - Dostoevsky's confessional heroes and the "tragedy of the underground"
- the resurrection from inertia in "Crime and punishment"
- the verdict of death in "The idiot"
- the dead machine of European civilization - inertia in "The devils"
- death by ice - the poetics of entropy in "The adolescent"
- the dimensions of providence in "The brothers Karamazov"
- afterword - "Except a corn of wheat".
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