Description
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoy’s unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality, as presented in his numerous literary and his philosophico-religious works. The collection includes twelve contributions, especially written for this collection, and its contributors are writers, philosophers, literary critics, and experts for Russian literature. Six of the essays examine Tolstoy’s literary works, while the other six scrutinize more closely his philosophical views. The two central foci of examinations of the included essays are
The Kreutzer Sonata and
The Kingdom of God is within You.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. But to Continue the Life—For What Purpose? Mikhail Shishkin
- 2. Tolstoy’s Fiction: Its Spiritual Legacy Rosamund Bartlett
- 3. What Is the Good According to Tolstoy, and How Good Can I Be? Donna Tussing Orwin
- 4. Tolstoy’s Unorthodox Catechesis: English Novels Liza Knapp
- 5. Tolstoy and Diderot on Women as “Dangerous Objects” Miran Bozovic
- 6. Tolstoy’s Divine Madness: An Analysis of The Kreutzer Sonata Predrag Cicovacki
- 7. The Kreutzer Sonata, Sexual Morality, and Music
Alexandra Smith
- 8. A Prophet of the Family: Vasily Rozanov Reads Tolstoy Diana Dukhanova
- 9. The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Death and Authentic Life Božidar Kante
- 10. Tolstoy’s Spiritual Nonviolence Robert L. Holmes
- 11. Three Attempts on Carthage: Tolstoy’s Designs of Nonviolent Destruction Inessa Medzhibovskaya
- 12. Tolstoy’s Philosophical Legacy An Interview with Abdusalam A. Guseynov
- Index
