Dostoevsky and social and metaphysical freedom

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    • Buzina, Tatyana

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Dostoevsky and social and metaphysical freedom

Tatyana Buzina

Edwin Mellen Press, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-316) and index

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Description

In structuring its argument about the dynamic by which the notions of fate and freedom operate throughout Dostoevsky's canon, this work brings together four traditions, the romantic tradition, old Norse mythology, the Russian folk tradition, and the Bible.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Free will and deification - Dostoevsky's romantic model: Schelling's philosophy of freedom - the cornerstone of romanticism
  • Dostoevsky and Job's tragic freedom. Part 2 Luck, destiny, fate and doom in the Russian folk worldview: fatalistic beliefs - approach and general overview
  • collectivism vs. personalism in the Russian folk worldview
  • luck - the original fatalistic concept
  • destiny - death and deification
  • fate - the death of gods
  • doom - the life-span of the university. Part 3 "Notes from the House of the Dead" - a study in fate and freedom: the elite and the folk - an unexpected convergence
  • Akul'ka's husband - love, money, or love of money?
  • the elite and the folk - in search of common ground. Part 4 Between luck, destiny and chance: destiny and chance - deterioration of the heroic fatalistic beliefs in "The Gambler"
  • "The Brothers Karamazov" and the hero of our time - choice and indetermination
  • "The Brothers Karamazov" - movement from common heroic. Part 5 "The Brothers Karamazov" - the final synthesis: conclusions.

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