001476831 000__ 06991nam\a22011415i\4500 001476831 001__ 1476831 001476831 003__ DE-B1597 001476831 005__ 20231017003313.0 001476831 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001476831 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001476831 008__ 230529t20232023mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001476831 020__ $$a9780674293434 001476831 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674293434$$2doi 001476831 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)642340 001476831 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001476831 0410_ $$aeng 001476831 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001476831 050_4 $$aPG2948$$b.M67 2023 001476831 072_7 $$aLIT004240$$2bisacsh 001476831 08204 $$a891.709$$223/eng/20221013 001476831 1001_ $$aMorson, Gary Saul, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001476831 24510 $$aWonder Confronts Certainty :$$bRussian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter /$$cGary Saul Morson. 001476831 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2023] 001476831 264_4 $$c©2023 001476831 300__ $$a1 online resource (464 p.) 001476831 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001476831 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001476831 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001476831 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001476831 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tNote to the Reader -- $$tIntroduction: Great Conversations and Accursed Questions -- $$tPart One: The disputants -- $$t1 Russian Literature -- $$t2 The Intelligentsia -- $$tPart Two: Three types of thinker -- $$t3 The Wanderer: Pilgrim of Ideas -- $$t4 The Idealist: Incorrigible and Disappointed -- $$t5 The Revolutionist: Pure Violence -- $$tPart Three: Timeless questions -- $$t6 What Can't Theory Account For? Theoretism and Its Discontents -- $$t7 What Is Not to Be Done? Ethics and Materialism -- $$t8 Who Is Not to Blame? The Search for an Alibi -- $$t9 What Time Isn't It? Possibilities and Actualities -- $$t10 What Don't We Appreciate? Prosaics Hidden in Plain View -- $$t11 What Doesn't It All Mean? The Trouble with Happiness -- $$tConclusion: Into the World Symposium -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tNotes -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001476831 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001476831 520__ $$aA noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed questions about good and evil, moral responsibility, and human freedom with a clarity and intensity found nowhere else. In this wide-ranging meditation, Gary Saul Morson delineates intellectual debates that have coursed through two centuries of Russian writing, as the greatest thinkers of the empire and then the Soviet Union enchanted readers with their idealism, philosophical insight, and revolutionary fervor.Morson describes the Russian literary tradition as an argument between a radical intelligentsia that uncompromisingly followed ideology down the paths of revolution and violence, and writers who probed ever more deeply into the human condition. The debate concerned what Russians called "the accursed questions": If there is no God, are good and evil merely human constructs? Should we look for life's essence in ordinary or extreme conditions? Are individual minds best understood in terms of an overarching theory or, as Tolstoy thought, by tracing the "tiny alternations of consciousness"? Exploring apologia for bloodshed, Morson adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the non-alibi-the idea that one cannot escape or displace responsibility for one's actions. And, throughout, Morson isolates a characteristic theme of Russian culture: how the aspiration to relieve profound suffering can lead to either heartfelt empathy or bloodthirsty tyranny.What emerges is a contest between unyielding dogmatism and open-minded dialogue, between heady certainty and a humble sense of wonder at the world's elusive complexity-a thought-provoking journey into inescapable questions. 001476831 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001476831 546__ $$aIn English. 001476831 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. 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