Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky And The Search For A Global Ethic

Friesen also investigates Dostoevsky's response to those who claimed that contemporary European trends, most evident in the rising secularization of nineteenth-century society, provided a more viable foundation for a global ethic than one grounded in the One, whom Doestoevsky called simply "the Russian Christ." Throughout, Friesen captures a sense of the depth and sheer loveliness of Dostoevsky's canon. Dostoevsky was, after all, someone who believed that the ethical life was sublimely beautiful, even as it recklessly embraced suffering and unreasonably forgave others. The book will appeal to both students and scholars of Russian literature and history, comparative ethics, global ethics, and cultural studies, and togeneral readers with an interest in Dostoevsky. "Others have written about Dostoevsky's ethics, but I am not aware of any single-authored, sustained attempt to make the case for Dostoevsky's 'transcendent love' as part of a larger discussion of a global ethic.

• | Author: Leonard G. Friesen
• | Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0268028974
• | ISBN-13: 9780268028978