Dostoevskys the Gambler - The Allure of the Wheel

Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Gambler is one of the most profound literary works to treat the phenomenon of gambling with a remarkable depth of psychological analysis and a wide-ranging cultural and philosophical exploration of obsessive behavior, from addictive gambling to erotic passion. This novel delves into the cultural, psychological, and philosophical issues surrounding games of chance such as temporality, freedom, rebellion, choice, uncertainty, determinism, and creativity. This is the first book in English dedicated to The Gambler. This volume considers the phenomenon of gambling from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, focusing not only on medical and psychological concepts of gambling as pathology, but also on the broader cultural, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic aspects of the problem. What triggers fascination with risk-taking and various aleatory activities? What are the relations between gambling, play, and creativity? Can gambling be seen as a form of social or existential rebellion and protest or even a quest for freedom? Scholars from a variety of fields, including psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, literary studies, and musicology, have contributed to this volume and analyzed Dostoevsky's view of gambling as a fundamental problem of human existence, with implications in the realms of philosophy, religion, and aesthetics.

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Edited by Svetlana Evdokimova - Contributions by Svetlana Evdokimova; Richard J. Rosenthal; Joachim I. Krueger; David J. Grüning; Robert L. Jackson; Vladimir Golstein; Evgenia Cherkasova; Jeff Love; Octavian Gabor; Andrea Oppo; Carol Apollonio and Simon M

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• Autori: Svetlana Evdokimova
• Con la collaborazione di: Svetlana Evdokimova (Editore), Evdokimova Svetlana (Editore)
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.02.2024
• EAN: 9781666945294
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-529-4
• Pagine: 296
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; Russia, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Literature: history & criticism, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet