Chapter 10: Tolstoy’s Spiritual Nonviolence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction xii
6. Chapter 1: But to Continue the Life—For What Purpose? 1
7. Chapter 2: Tolstoy’s Fiction: Its Spiritual Legacy 16
8. Chapter 3: What Is the Good According to Tolstoy, and How Good Can I Be? 37
9. Chapter 4: Tolstoy’s Unorthodox Catechesis: English Novels 53
10. Chapter 5: Tolstoy and Diderot on Women as “Dangerous Objects” 77
11. Chapter 6: Tolstoy’s Divine Madness: An Analysis of The Kreutzer Sonata 93
12. Chapter 7: The Kreutzer Sonata, Sexual Morality, and Music 109
13. Chapter 8: A Prophet of the Family: Vasily Rozanov Reads Tolstoy 128
14. Chapter 9: The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Death and Authentic Life 149
15. Chapter 10: Tolstoy’s Spiritual Nonviolence 161
16. Chapter 11: Three Attempts on Carthage: Tolstoy’s Designs of Nonviolent Destruction 180
17. Chapter 12: Tolstoy’s Philosophical Legacy 212
18. Index 233