LEADER 03335nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910782724503321 005 20230912151738.0 010 $a1-55458-816-2 010 $a1-55458-611-9 010 $a1-282-23327-0 010 $a9786613811011 010 $a0-88920-564-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713645 035 $a(EBL)685961 035 $a(OCoLC)753479611 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278817 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11212627 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278817 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10259430 035 $a(PQKB)11789049 035 $a(CaPaEBR)402295 035 $a(CaBNvSL)jme00326905 035 $a(OCoLC)1016781584 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58176 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL685961 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10147141 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/kqdkw3 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402295 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC685961 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3246137 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713645 100 $a19870508d1986 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDostoyevsky's critique of the West $ethe quest for the earthly paradise /$fBruce K. Ward 210 1$aWaterloo, Ont. :$cWilfrid Laurier University Press,$d1986. 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) 311 0 $a0-88920-190-0 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 330 $aNot much attention has been given to Dostoyevsky's concern with the crisis of the modern West, although allusions to almost every aspect of Western civilization--including the political, economic, and social dimensions--are present in his literary works and abound in his secondary writings. This book points the way to a better understanding of the apparent contradiction between Dostoyevsky's concern with the highest reaches of human spirituality and at the same time with the most detailed developments in domestic and international politics. Ward argues that the apparent polarization of "religious" thought and "political" analysis of the West are held together for Dostoyevsky in his search for the best human order. He demonstrates not only that Dostoyevsky's observations about the West constitute a coherent critique intimately related to the deepest aspects of his though, but also that these can be rendered more systematic and explicit. What results is an incisve account of both the religious and the political thought of Dostoyevsky, which helps clarify what Dostoyevsky, which helps clarify what Dostoyevsky can teach us about the modern situation of the Western world and about the problem of human order in general, for, as the author states, "it was Dostoyevsky's great virtue as a thinker always to see the pressing issues of his particular time and place in the light of the 'everlasting problems.'" 606 $aCivilization, Western, in literature 607 $aRussia$xIntellectual life$y1801-1917 615 0$aCivilization, Western, in literature. 676 $a800 700 $aWard$b Bruce K$g(Bruce Kinsey),$f1950-$01540044 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782724503321 996 $aDostoyevsky's critique of the West$93791411 997 $aUNINA