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Tolstoy And The Religious Culture Of His Time A Biography Of A Long Conversion 18451887 Inessa Medzhibovskaya

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Tolstoy And The Religious Culture Of His Time A Biography Of A Long Conversion 18451887 Inessa Medzhibovskaya
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Publisher: Lexington Books
File Extension: PDF
File size: 1.45 MB
Pages: 451
Author: Inessa Medzhibovskaya
ISBN: 0739140752, 9780739140758, 0739125338
Language: English
Year: 2009

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Tolstoy And The Religious Culture Of His Time A Biography Of A Long Conversion 18451887 Inessa Medzhibovskaya by Inessa Medzhibovskaya 0739140752, 9780739140758, 0739125338 instant download after payment.

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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