Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives

by Robert Guay (Editor)

The gruesome double-murder upon which the novel Crime and Punishment hinges leads its culprit, Raskolnikov, into emotional trauma and obsessive, destructive self-reflection. But Raskolnikov's famous philosophical musings are just part of the full philosophical thought manifest in one of Dostoevsky's most famous novels.

This volume, uniquely, brings together prominent philosophers and literary scholars to deepen our understanding of the novel's full range of philosophical thought. The seven essays treat a diversity of topics, language and the representation of the human mind, emotions and the susceptibility to loss, the nature of agency, freedom and the possibility of evil, the family and the failure of utopian critique, the authority of law and morality, and the dialogical self. Further, authors provide new approaches for thinking about the relationship between literary representation and philosophy, and the way that Dostoevsky labored over intricate problems of narrative form in Crime and Punishment .

Together, these essays demonstrate a seminal work's full philosophical worth--a novel rich with complex themes whose questions reverberate powerfully into the 21st century.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2019

Reviews

[Eshraq]

اینو تقریبا با یک سال فاصله از جنایت و مکافات خوندم.
دلم میخواد یکم بزرگ‌تر شم بخوان یاد این ایام کنم و این بار کنار هم بخونمشون.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Will blog about this book, since much of it I want to put into notes for class. This next semester I will be teaching Crime and Punishment, possibly my favorite novel ever! (although it is hard to choose only one)