Tolstoy and Spirituality

Predrag Cicovacki is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of ten books, including The Luminosity of Love (2018), Gandhi’s Footprints(2015), and Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life (2012). Heidi Nada Grek is a PhD candidate in German and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include Goethe’s Faust, the European epic tradition, and world literature. She is also a co-translator (from Serbian) of Laza Kostić, The Basic Principle (2016).

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