Tolstoy and Spirituality (Web PDF) von Predrag Cicovacki

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoy’s unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality. Six of the essays examine Tolstoy’s literary works, while the other six scrutinize more closely his philosophical views. The two central foci of examinations are The Kreutzer Sonata and The Kingdom of God is within You.

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1. But to Continue the Life—For What Purpose?
Mikhail Shishkin

2. Tolstoy’s Fiction: Its Spiritual Legacy
Rosamund Bartlett

3. What Is the Good According to Tolstoy, and How Good Can I Be?
Donna Tussing Orwin

4. Tolstoy’s Unorthodox Catechesis: English Novels
Liza Knapp

5. Tolstoy and Diderot on Women as “Dangerous Objects”
Miran Bozovic

6. Tolstoy’s Divine Madness: An Analysis of The Kreutzer Sonata
Predrag Cicovacki

7. The Kreutzer Sonata, Sexual Morality, and Music
Alexandra Smith

8. A Prophet of the Family: Vasily Rozanov Reads Tolstoy
Diana Dukhanova

9. The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Death and Authentic Life
Božidar Kante

10. Tolstoy’s Spiritual Nonviolence
Robert L. Holmes

11. Three Attempts on Carthage: Tolstoy’s Designs of Nonviolent Destruction
Inessa Medzhibovskaya

12. Tolstoy’s Philosophical Legacy
An Interview with Abdusalam A. Guseynov

Index