Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time: A Biography of a Long Conversation, 1845-1887Lexington Books, 2008 - 405ÆäÀÌÁö The first book-length study on the subject in any language, Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time treats Tolstoy's experience as a massive philosophical and religious project rather than a crisis-laden tragedy. Inessa Medzhibovskaya explains the evolution of Tolstoy's religious outlook based on his ongoing dialogue with the tradition of conversion in Europe and Russia, as well as on the demands of his own heart, mind, and spirit. The author contextualizes Tolstoy's conversion, comparing his pattern of religious conversion with that of other notable religious converts-Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, Luther, Pascal, Rousseau-as well with that of Tolstoy's countrymen-Pushkin, Gogol, Chaadaev, Stankevich, Belinsky, Herzen, and Dostoevsky. Stressing the importance of the religious culture of his time for Tolstoy, this study investigates the nineteenth century debates that inspired and repelled Tolstoy as he weighed arguments for or against faith in his dialogues with the culture of his time, covering widely differing fields and disciplines of experimental knowledge. The author considers German Romantic philosophy, the natural sciences, pragmatist religious solutions, theories of social progress and evolution, and the historical school of Christianity. Medzhibovskaya stresses the fact that influential intellectual currents were as important to Tolstoy as believers and nonbelievers were from and beyond his immediate environment. The author argues that, in this sense, Tolstoy's conversion emerges as deeply intertextual, and this surprising discovery should not diminish our trust in Tolstoy's sincerity during his religious evolution, which occurred both spontaneously as well as deliberately. The polyphony of discreet spiritual moments that Tolstoy created by fusing in his narratives of conversion religious and artistic realms is arguably his greatest contribution to spiritual autobiography. |
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The Russian Vertigo in Personal Experience and Literature to 1847 | 3 |
Chapter 02 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Nonbeliever | 35 |
Chapter 03 Superfluity and the Religion of Writing 18511863 | 57 |
Chapter 04 Belief System in War and Peace 18631869 | 83 |
The Case With the Epilogues | 109 |
18691875 | 131 |
Part Two | 159 |
From Philosophy to Christ 18751878 | 161 |
Chapter 10 Logos and its Life in the World 18801886 | 263 |
Chapter 11 The Death of Ivan Ilich | 295 |
Chapter 12 On Life and Conclusion | 333 |
Tolstoy On Prayer 1852 | 359 |
Prayer for Granddaughter Sonechka and Prayer 1909 | 361 |
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About the Author | 405 |
Chapter 08 Turning with Christ 18781881 | 199 |
Chapter 09 Religious Experience and Forms of Accounting | 231 |
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