Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

Philosophical Perspectives

Robert Guay editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:6th Jun '19

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The gruesome double-murder upon which the novel Crime and Punishment hinges leads its culprit, Raskolnikov, into emotional trauma and obsessive, destructive self-reflection. But Raskolnikov's famous philosophical musings are just part of the full philosophical thought manifest in one of Dostoevsky's most famous novels. This volume, uniquely, brings together prominent philosophers and literary scholars to deepen our understanding of the novel's full range of philosophical thought. The seven essays treat a diversity of topics, including: language and the representation of the human mind, emotions and the susceptibility to loss, the nature of agency, freedom and the possibility of evil, the family and the failure of utopian critique, the authority of law and morality, and the dialogical self. Further, authors provide new approaches for thinking about the relationship between literary representation and philosophy, and the way that Dostoevsky labored over intricate problems of narrative form in Crime and Punishment. Together, these essays demonstrate a seminal work's full philosophical worth--a novel rich with complex themes whose questions reverberate powerfully into the 21st century.

...[S]uperb...All of the volume's nine chapters do a convincing job of motivating a particular way of approaching Dostoevsky's great novel in a manner that is recognizably philosophical yet sensitive to the work's formal and dramatic handling of its content. The authors work in many traditions, yet there is a surprising uniformity of philosophical style and literary sensibility, and the reader has the impression of listening to a conversation unfold rather than a hearing an assemblage of disparate voices sound off on a common theme. * John Gibson, University of Louisville, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *

ISBN: 9780190464011

Dimensions: 146mm x 219mm x 21mm

Weight: 397g

238 pages