Political and Social Thought of F.m. Dostoevsky

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Carter Zusammenfassung This study concentrates on The Devils , but also places this novel in the total context of Dostoevsky’s work. Also considered is the life and work of T.N. Granovsky, who is satirised along with Turgenev in the novel, and thus offers a useful basis on which to delineate the contours of Dostoevsky’s thought. First published in 1991, the book begins from the belief that his "genius embodies much of what is typical of Russian life: his boundless vitality, his extremism, his lack of empiricism and economy. To understand Dostoevsky is therefore somehow to understand Russia." The author concludes that Dostoevsky badly misunderstood Western liberalism, but grappled very well with the psychology of the radical terrorist. This is explained with reference to his intellectual revolution, which is seen as consisting of six stages from his early works of the 1840s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Dostoevsky 1821-49: Early Years, Early Works 2. Dostoevsky’s Political Baptism: The Road to the Petrashevsky Circle – and Beyond 3. The Years in the Wilderness, 1849-59 4. 1860-63: From ‘Reconciliation’ to Anti-Nihilism 5. 1864-66: ‘Underground Man’ in Adversity 6. 1867-69: The Quarrel with Turgenev and The Moral Regeneration of Russia 7. 1898-72: ‘The Devils’: An Overview 8. ‘The Devils’: Granovsky, Turgenev, Nechaev 9. 1873-81: From ‘Grazhdanin’ to Geok-Tepe 10. Conclusion. Appendix I: Sergei Gennadevich Nechaev. Appendix II: Timofei Nikolaevich Granovsky

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Stephen Carter
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 18.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138803374
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80337-4
• Pages: 310
• Thème: Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Eastern Europe, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Russian, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet