Tolstoy's Quest for God
Editat de Daniel Rancour-Laferriereen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iul 2007
Tolstoy suffered from periodic bouts of depression which brought his creative life to a standstill, and which intensified his need to find comfort in the embrace of a personal God. At times he was in such psychic pain he wanted to die. Yet Tolstoy felt that he deserved to suffer, and he learned to welcome suffering in masochistic fashion. Rancour-Laferriere locates the psychological underpinnings of Tolstoy's suffering in a bipolar illness that led him actively to seek suffering and self-humiliation in the Russian tradition of "holy foolishness." With voluntary suffering, and Jesus Christ as his model, Tolstoy advocated "nonresistance to evil," and in his daily life he strove never to return evil actions or words with physical or verbal resistance. On the other hand, being bipolar, Tolstoy in some situations would drift in a manic direction, indulging in delusions of grandeur. Indeed, the aging Tolstoy occasionally went so far as to equate himself with God, as can be seen from his diaries and personal correspondence.
The pantheistic world view which Tolstoy achieved at the end of his life meant that God was within himself and within all people and all things in the entire universe. By this time Tolstoy was also utilizing images of a mother to represent his God. With this essentially maternal God so conveniently available, there was nowhere Tolstoy could be without Her. For, in the end, Tolstoy's quest for God was a compensatory search for the mother who died when he was barely two years old. Tolstoy's Quest for God is an original and penetrating contribution to the study of one of the world's supreme writers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780765803764
ISBN-10: 0765803763
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0765803763
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction; 1: Tolstoy Records His Religious Crisis; 2: Tolstoy Attacks the Russian Orthodox Church; 3: Tolstoy Tells Us What He Believes; 4: Pantheistic Finale
Descriere
The religious dimension of Tolstoy's life is usually associated with his later years following his renunciation of art