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The annihilation of inertia : Dostoevsky and metaphysics

Liza Knapp
This study is an exploration of the dichotomy of faith and science as presented in the writings of the 19th-century Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
eBook, English, ©1996
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., ©1996
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages)
9780810113725, 0810113724
1048660572
Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Metaphysics of Inertia
The Force of Inertia: Dostoevsky's Confessional Heroes and the "Tragedy of the Underground"
The Resurrection from Inertia in Crime And Punishment
The Verdict of Death in The Idiot
The Dead Machine of European Civilization: Inertia in The Devils
Death by Ice: The Poetics of Entropy in The Adolescent
The Dimensions of Providence in The Brothers Karamazov
Afterword: "Except a Corn of Wheat."