Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky

Vladimir Golstein is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism (1999), Svetlana Aleksievich –The Voice of Soviet Intelligentsia (2015) and numerous articles on major Russian authors. His essays on current political affairs have been published by Forbes, The Nation, Al Jazeera, RT, Antiwar, Alternet, and Russia Insider; he is also a frequent participant in various political TV shows discussing US and Russia’s foreign politics and culture for CCTV’s The Heat, PressTV, RT’s Crosstalk, Al Jazeera, and Channel 4 in Great Britain.

Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky’s Quest for Realism Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana Evdokimova
I. Encounters with Science
1. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia’s Radical Youth David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson
2. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost Sheep Liza Knapp
3. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood Anna A. Berman
4. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and “Our Dostoevsky” Daniel P. Todes
II. Engagements with Philosophy
5. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of “the Meaning of Life” Steven Cassedy
6. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief David S. Cunningham
7. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher Charles Larmore
8. “If there’s no immortality of the soul . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s Idea Sergei A. Kibalnik
III. Questions of Aesthetics
9. Once Again about Dostoevsky’s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb Robert L. Jackson
10. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov Susanne Fusso
11. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation Svetlana Evdokimova
IV. The Self and the Other
12. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double Gary Saul Morson
13. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm Yuri Corrigan


14. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov Michal Oklot


15. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Vladimir Golstein
16. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead Carol Apollonio
17. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” Deborah A. Martinsen


18. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky—Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes Inessa Medzhibovskaya
V. Intercultural Connections
19. Achilles in Crime and Punishment Donna Orwin
20. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding) Olga Meerson
21. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom Marina Kostalevsky