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The annihilation of inertia: Dostoevsky and metaphysics

Liza Knapp c1996 © Northwestern University Press
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  • 9780810113725 (hardcover)
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration (page xi)
  • Chapter One: Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Metaphysics of Inertia (page 1)
  • Chapter Two: The Forces of Inertia: Dostoevsky's Confessional Heroes and the "Tragedy of the Underground" (page 15)
  • Chapter Three: The Resurrection from Inertia in Crime and Punishment (page 44)
  • Chapter Four: The Verdict of Death in The Idiot (page 66)
  • Chapter Five: The Dead Machine of European Civilization: Inertia in The Devils (page 102)
  • Chapter Six: Death by Ice: The Poetics of Entropy in The Adolescent (page 131)
  • Chapter Seven: The Dimensions of Providence in The Brothers Karamazov (page 172)
  • Chapter Eight: Afterword: "Except a Corn of Wheat" (page 217)
  • Notes (page 222)
  • Select Bibliography (page 294)
  • Index (page 307)
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SR 57.3 (Autumn. 1998): 685-686 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2500762
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