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The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics

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Author(s): Liza Knapp
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Year: 1996

Language: English
Pages: 328
City: Evanston

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Note on Translation and Transliteration......Page 12
Chapter One. Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Metaphysics of Inertia......Page 14
Chapter Two. The Force of Inertia: Dostoevsky’s Confessional Heroes and the “Tragedy of the Underground”......Page 28
Chapter Three. The Resurrection from Inertia in Crime And Punishment......Page 57
Chapter Four. The Verdict of Death in The Idiot......Page 79
Chapter Five. The Dead Machine of European Civilization: Inertia in The Devils......Page 115
Chapter Six. Death by Ice: The Poetics of Entropy in The Adolescent......Page 144
Chapter Seven. The Dimensions of Providence in The Brothers Karamazov......Page 185
Chapter Eight. Afterword: “Except a Com of Wheat”......Page 230
Notes......Page 235
Select Bibliography......Page 307
Index......Page 320