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Introduction. Fiction beyond fiction : Dostoevsky's quest for realism /Svetlana Evdokimova and Vladimir Golstein --Part 1.Encounters with science --Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia's radical youth /David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson --Darwin's plots, Malthus's mighty feast, Lamennais's motherless fledglings, and Dostoevsky's lost sheep /Liza Knapp --"Viper will eat viper" : Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the possibility of brotherhood /Anna A. Berman --Encounters with the prophet : Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and "our Dostoevsky" /Daniel P. Todes --Part 2.Engagements with philosophy --Dostoevsky and the meaning of "the meaning of life" /Steven Cassedy --Dostoevsky and Nietzsche : the hazards of writing oneself into (or out of) belief /David S. Cunningham --Dostoevsky as moral philosopher /Charles Larmore --"If there's no immortality of the soul, ...everything is lawful" : on the philosophical basis of Ivan Karamozov's idea /Sergei A. Kibalnik --Part 3.Questions of aesthetics --Once again about Dostoevsky's response to Hans Holbein the Younger's Dead body of Christ in the tomb /Robert L. Jackson --Prelude to a collaboration : Dostoevsky's aesthetic polemic with Michail Katkov /Susanne Fusso --Dostoevsky's postmodernists and the poetics of incarnation /Svetlana Evdokimova --Part 4.The self and the other --What is it like to be bats? Paradoxes of The double /Gary Saul Morson --Interiority and intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky : the Vasya Shumkov paradigm /Yuri Corrigan --Dostoevsky's angel -- still an idiot, still beyond the story : the case of Kalganov /Michal Oklot --The detective as midwife in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment /Vladimir Golstein --Metaphors for solitary confinement in Notes from underground and Notes from the house of the dead /Carol Apollonio --Moral emotions in Dostoevsky's "The dream of a ridiculous man" /Deborah A. Martinsen --Like a shepherd to his flock : the messianic pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky -- its sources and conceptual echoes /Inessa Medzhibovskaya --Part 5.Intercultural connections --Achilles in Crime and punishment /Donna Orwin --Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac's binding) /Olga Meerson --Prince Myshkin's night journey : chronotope as a symptom /Marina Kostalevsky. 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
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