Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art: The Burden of VisionTransaction Publishers - 216 pagine Fyodor Dostoevsky's highest and most permanent achievement as a novelist lies in his exploration of man's religious complex, his world and his fate. His primary vision is to be found in his last five novels: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, A Raw Youth, and The Brothers Karamazov. This volume culminates twenty years of studying, teaching, and writing on Dostoevsky. Here George A. Panichas critically analyzes the religious themes and meanings of the author's major works. Focusing on the pervasive spiritual consciousness at play, Panichas views Dostoevsky not as a religious doctrinaire, but as a visionary whose five great novels constitute a sequential meditation on man's human and superhuman destiny. |
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... Christ and Nothing " with the provocative and pro- foundly true observation that " as modern men and women— to the degree that we are modern — we believe in nothing .... [ W ] e hold an unshakable , if often unconscious , faith in the ...
... Christ is impossible . The law of personality on earth binds . The Ego stands in the way . " The achievement of perfect self - surrender in this world is beyond human capabil- ity . But Dostoevsky believed that Christ was the ideal Man ...
... Christ and achieving perfection in love by surrender- ing the ego means that there is an inescapable transcendent di- mension to human existence and therefore there must be immortality , because a merely temporary , earthly perfection ...
... Christ than rational egoism . As Panichas shows , Dostoevsky's books probe ever deeper into the soul in the quest for God because this is the most important question for the prophet , whose spiritual thirst drives him through the desert ...
... Christ and the truth he would choose Christ . Ivan , and his alter ego the Grand Inquisitor , implicitly recognize that Christ is the truth but they prefer to remain with their proud nihilistic egoism , imagining that there is something ...
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Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art: The Burden of Vision George Andrew Panichas Anteprima non disponibile - 1985 |