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God and the devil are fighting: The ...

O'Brien, Stephen M.

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God and the devil are fighting: The scandal of evil in Dostoyevsky and Camus.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	God and the devil are fighting: The scandal of evil in Dostoyevsky and Camus./
作者:	O'Brien, Stephen M.
面頁冊數:	436 p.
附註:	Adviser: Elizabeth K. Beaujour.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3311250
ISBN:	9780549611370

God and the devil are fighting: The scandal of evil in Dostoyevsky and Camus.
O'Brien, Stephen M.

God and the devil are fighting: The scandal of evil in Dostoyevsky and Camus. - 436 p.

Adviser: Elizabeth K. Beaujour.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2008.

By comparing the ways in which Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus address the scandalous problem of evil, and by following an interdisciplinary approach adducing arguments based on Western philosophical and theological classics, this study highlights the novelists' exceptional bond. Although both view evil as a primordial issue and reject the solution proposed by the Catholic Church, their own answers clash. While Dostoyevsky accepts Russian Orthodoxy's teachings on God, the Incarnation, the Redemption, contrition, forgiveness, reparation, immortality, and the resurrection, Camus first embraces full-fledged absurdism and then atheistic humanism, and hence considers the human condition ultimately meaningless.

ISBN: 9780549611370Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

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520 $a The dissertation's central contention is that each writer fails to ground his philosophical position on evil adequately. Because he largely neglects arguments from apologetics---arguments which this dissertation sketches---Dostoyevsky fails in his self-professed intention of refuting Ivan's atheistic discourse in the "Rebellion" chapter of The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky also destroys his own polemic against Catholicism in "The Grand Inquisitor" by undermining Russian Orthodoxy, since, like Catholicism, it, too, incorporates miracle, mystery, and authority. Camus ignores apologetics and assumes the truth of atheism, thus begging the question.
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