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Tolstoy and his problems : views from the twenty-first century

Medzhibovskaya, Inessa, 1964- (editor.).

Summary: Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy's thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group of Tolstoy specialists who are leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences. In the broadest sense--with essays on a variety of issues that occupied Tolstoy, such as nihilism, mysticism, social theory, religion, Judaism, education, opera, and Shakespeare--the volume offers a fresh evaluation of Tolstoy's program to reform the ways we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice spirituality, exchange ideas and knowledge, become educated, and speak and think about history and social change.

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ISBN: 0810138816
ISBN: 9780810138810
ISBN: 0810138808
ISBN: 9780810138803
ISBN: 0810138824
ISBN: 9780810138827
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : Tolstoy and his problems, choosing a perspective / Inessa Medzhibovskaya -- Prologue : Tolstoy's nihilism / Jeff Love -- Tolstoy as social theorist / Michael A. Denner -- The transformation of the mystical tradition in Tolstoy's art and religious thought / Vladimir M. Paperni -- Tolstoy's Jewish questions / Inessa Medzhibovskaya -- Laughing with the Count : the humor in War and peace and beyond / Jeffrey Brooks -- Five principles of Tolstoy's educational thought / Daniel Moulin-Stożek -- Tolstoy, opera, and the problem of aesthetic seduction / Stephen Halliwell -- Tolstoy against Shakespeare (a theatrical feud featuring George Bernard Shaw) / Caryl Emerson -- Epilogue : What can we, in the twenty-first century, learn from Tolstoy? : ruminations on reading all ninety volumes of The Jubilee edition of Tolstoy's complete works; . . . and a bit about pigeons, cookies and milk, and snails . . . / Ellen Chances.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.