Dostoevsky and the riddle of the self / Yuri Corrigan.
Dostoevsky and the riddle of the self / Yuri Corrigan.
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Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
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G 2018/6814
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English
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viii, 238 pages ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- On the dangers of intimacy (the Vasia Shumkov paradigm) -- Amnesia and the collective personality in the early works -- Transparency and trauma in The insulted and injured -- Beyond the dispersed self in The idiot -- On the education of demons and unfinished selves -- The hiding plac...
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Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
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Illinois
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
Dostoevsky was hostile to the notion of individual autonomy, and yet, throughout his life and work, he vigorously advocated the freedom and inviolability of the self. This ambivalence has animated his diverse and often self-contradictory legacy: as precursor of psychoanalysis, forefather of existentialism, postmodernist avant la lettre, religious t...
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Dostoevsky and the riddle of the self / Yuri Corrigan.
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Northwestern University Press. Studies in Russian literature and theory
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-230) and index.
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G 2018/6814
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74VKVbZzQWVO
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9780810135703 hardcover alkaline paper
0810135701 hardcover alkaline paper
9780810135697 paperback alkaline paper
0810135698 paperback alkaline paper
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891.733
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991024200806702626
