Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky’s Quest for Realism 1
5. Part 1. Encounters with Science
6. I. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia’s Radical Youth 35
7. II. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost Sheep 63
8. III. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood 83
9. IV. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and “Our Dostoevsky” 97
10. Part 2. Engagements with Philosophy
11. V. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of “the Meaning of Life” 111
12. VI. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief 129
13. VII. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher 151
14. VIII. “If there’s no immortality of the soul, . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s Idea 165
15. Part 3. Questions of Aesthetics
16. IX. Once Again about Dostoevsky’s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb 179
17. X. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov 193
18. XI. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation 213
19. Part 4. The Self and the Other
20. XII. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double 235
21. XIII. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm 249
22. XIV. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov 267
23. XV. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment 291
24. XVI. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead 313
25. XVII. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” 329
26. XVIII. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky—Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes 343
27. Part 5: Intercultural Connections
28. XIX. Achilles in Crime and Punishment 367
29. XX. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding) 379
30. XXI. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom 395
31. Index 403