Dostoevsky the Thinker by Scanlan, James P

Cornell University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Cornell University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Cornell University Press, 2002-03-05. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x0. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings.

Cornell, 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellow highlighter markings throughout. 251 pages.

Cornell University Press, 2002-03-05. 1. hardcover. Used: Good.

Cornell University Press, May 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Most Dostoevsky criticism proceeds from Dostoevsky the great literary artist to the great philosophical insights that spun out of his creations. James Scanlan has chosen to reverse this sequence and examine Dostoevsky the great thinker whose philosophical insights were expressed in literary modes (''his novels were about ideas as much as about people'' said Victor Terras). Paying special attention not only to the novels but also to Dostoevsky's notebooks and journals, Scanlan formulates the principle focus of his philosophy as ''anthropomorphic, prompted not by abstract cosmological and epistemological concerns but by an obsession with humanity..wthat it means to be a human being.'' Against the rational materialism burgeoning in late nineteenth-century Russia, Dostoevsky posited human beings as ''moral creatures whose standards of both personal conduct and social relationships were provided… Read More

Cornell University Press. A beautiful, crisp, clean hardcover in very good condition; light shelf wear to extremities. DJ in very good condition with mild edge wear. . Very Good. Hardcover. 2002.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cornell University Press, 2002-03-05. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!