Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century
by Inessa Medzhibovskaya contributions by Michael A. Denner, Jeff Love, Vladimir Paperni, Jeff Brooks, Daniel Moulin-Stozek, Stephen Halliwell, Caryl Emerson and Ellen Chances
Northwestern University Press, 2019 eISBN: 978-0-8101-3882-7 | Paper: 978-0-8101-3880-3 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-3881-0 Library of Congress Classification PG3415.S6T65 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 891.733
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy's thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group of Tolstoy specialists who are leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
In the broadest sense—with essays on a variety of issues that occupied Tolstoy, such as nihilism, mysticism, social theory, religion, Judaism, education, opera, and Shakespeare—the volume offers a fresh evaluation of Tolstoy's program to reform the ways we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice spirituality, exchange ideas and knowledge, become educated, and speak and think about history and social change.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
INESSA MEDZHIBOVSKAYA is an associate professor of liberal studies and literary studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.
REVIEWS
"Inessa Medzhibovskaya is to be congratulated on compiling this set of excellent, original essays referencing Tolstoy's relevance to the present time. I have no doubt that this volume will be an important contribution to Tolstoy scholarship, one used for a long time by researchers and teachers alike." —Donna Tussing Orwin, author of Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Note on abbreviations, citation, transliteration, and dates
Introduction: “Tolstoy and His Problems: Choosing a Perspective," Inessa Medzhibovskaya
1. Prologue: “Tolstoy’s Nihilism," Jeff Gordon Love
2. “Tolstoy as Social Theorist,” Michael Denner
3. “Reflections on the Mystical Tradition in Tolstoy’s Art and Religious Thought," Vladimir M. Paperni
4. “Tolstoy’s Jewish Questions," Inessa Medzhibovskaya
5. “Laughing with the Count," Jeff Brooks
6. “Five Principles of Tolstoy’s Educational Thought," Daniel Moulin-Stożek
7. “Tolstoy, Opera and the Problem of Aesthetic Seduction," Stephen Halliwell
8. “Tolstoy against Shakespeare (a theatrical feud featuring George Bernard Shaw)," Caryl Emerson
Epilogue: “What Can We, in the Twenty-first Century, Learn from Tolstoy? (Ruminations on Reading All Ninety Volumes of the Jubilee Edition of Tolstoy’s Complete Works…and a Bit about Pigeons, Cookies and Milk, and Snails…)," Ellen Chances
List of Contributors
Index
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Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century
by Inessa Medzhibovskaya contributions by Michael A. Denner, Jeff Love, Vladimir Paperni, Jeff Brooks, Daniel Moulin-Stozek, Stephen Halliwell, Caryl Emerson and Ellen Chances
Northwestern University Press, 2019 eISBN: 978-0-8101-3882-7 Paper: 978-0-8101-3880-3 Cloth: 978-0-8101-3881-0
Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy's thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group of Tolstoy specialists who are leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
In the broadest sense—with essays on a variety of issues that occupied Tolstoy, such as nihilism, mysticism, social theory, religion, Judaism, education, opera, and Shakespeare—the volume offers a fresh evaluation of Tolstoy's program to reform the ways we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice spirituality, exchange ideas and knowledge, become educated, and speak and think about history and social change.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
INESSA MEDZHIBOVSKAYA is an associate professor of liberal studies and literary studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.
REVIEWS
"Inessa Medzhibovskaya is to be congratulated on compiling this set of excellent, original essays referencing Tolstoy's relevance to the present time. I have no doubt that this volume will be an important contribution to Tolstoy scholarship, one used for a long time by researchers and teachers alike." —Donna Tussing Orwin, author of Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy
— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Note on abbreviations, citation, transliteration, and dates
Introduction: “Tolstoy and His Problems: Choosing a Perspective," Inessa Medzhibovskaya
1. Prologue: “Tolstoy’s Nihilism," Jeff Gordon Love
2. “Tolstoy as Social Theorist,” Michael Denner
3. “Reflections on the Mystical Tradition in Tolstoy’s Art and Religious Thought," Vladimir M. Paperni
4. “Tolstoy’s Jewish Questions," Inessa Medzhibovskaya
5. “Laughing with the Count," Jeff Brooks
6. “Five Principles of Tolstoy’s Educational Thought," Daniel Moulin-Stożek
7. “Tolstoy, Opera and the Problem of Aesthetic Seduction," Stephen Halliwell
8. “Tolstoy against Shakespeare (a theatrical feud featuring George Bernard Shaw)," Caryl Emerson
Epilogue: “What Can We, in the Twenty-first Century, Learn from Tolstoy? (Ruminations on Reading All Ninety Volumes of the Jubilee Edition of Tolstoy’s Complete Works…and a Bit about Pigeons, Cookies and Milk, and Snails…)," Ellen Chances
List of Contributors
Index
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