Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky’s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Note on the Text......Page 12
Abbreviations of Works by Fyodor Dostoevsky......Page 14
Introduction. Speaking with the Devil......Page 18
Part I......Page 36
Chapter One. “I Am Not an Expert at Lulling to Sleep”: The Struggle Between Faith and Doubtin Dostoevsky’s Writings......Page 38
Chapter Two. “He Gave His Son”: The Problem of the Crucifixion as Child Sacrifice in Dostoevsky......Page 46
Chapter Three. Disraeli and the Merchant God: Victims and Villains, Jews and Europe......Page 61
Chapter Four. A Synagogue Mistaken for a Church: Dostoevsky’s Demon and the Jews......Page 73
Part II......Page 82
Chapter Five. “I Have the Heart of a Lamb”: Roots of the Russian and Jewish Ideas and the Problem of the Crucifixion in Poor Folk......Page 84
Chapter Six. “God Sent Her to Us as a Reward for Our Sufferings”: The Origins of Dostoevsky’s Preoccupation with Child Sacrifice in the Dialogue Between Time and The Insulted and Injured......Page 93
Chapter Seven. Sources of Dostoevsky’s Antisemitism in Notes from the House of the Dead: The Problem of Redemption and the Resemblance of Christians and Jews......Page 105
Chapter Eight. “I Don’t Want Your Sacrifice”: The Morality of the Son in Crime and Punishment......Page 132
Chapter Nine. From Prince Christ to the Russian Christ: Problems of Resurrection in The Idiot and the Development of Dostoevsky’s National Messianism......Page 148
Chapter Ten. “This Is What I Cannot Bear”: The Obliteration of Moral Distinctions Through the Crucifixion in Demons......Page 159
Chapter Eleven. “You Can Buy the Whole World”: Zosima’s Christian Faith and the Jewish Idea in the Diary of a Writer......Page 172
Notes......Page 214
Index......Page 246
About the Author......Page 258