Wonder Confronts Certainty : : Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter / / Gary Saul Morson.
A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed questions about good and evil, moral responsibility, a...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction: Great Conversations and Accursed Questions
- Part One: The disputants
- 1 Russian Literature
- 2 The Intelligentsia
- Part Two: Three types of thinker
- 3 The Wanderer: Pilgrim of Ideas
- 4 The Idealist: Incorrigible and Disappointed
- 5 The Revolutionist: Pure Violence
- Part Three: Timeless questions
- 6 What Can’t Theory Account For? Theoretism and Its Discontents
- 7 What Is Not to Be Done? Ethics and Materialism
- 8 Who Is Not to Blame? The Search for an Alibi
- 9 What Time Isn’t It? Possibilities and Actualities
- 10 What Don’t We Appreciate? Prosaics Hidden in Plain View
- 11 What Doesn’t It All Mean? The Trouble with Happiness
- Conclusion: Into the World Symposium
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index