Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky 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.