Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky

<i>Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky</i> is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars social scientists scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics philosophy theology and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary theory and literature science and society scientific and theological components of comparative intellectual history and aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century Russia form the core of the intellectual framework of this book. Dostoevsky's oeuvre with its wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical religious political economic and scientific discourses of his time emerges as a particularly important case for the study of cross-fertilization among disciplines. The individual chapters explore Dostoevsky's real or imaginative dialogues with aesthetic philosophic and scientific thought of his predecessors contemporaries and successors revealing Dostoevsky's forward looking thought as it finds its echoes in modern literary theory philosophy theology and science.