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Article: Dostoevsky the Thinker.(Book Review)

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Dostoevsky the Thinker. By James P. Scanlan. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8014-3994-9. Pp. xiii + 251. $29.95.

"Dostoevsky adhered to a distinguished Russian philosophical tradition that, in the words of A. A. Ivanova, 'consists not in denying reason [razum] but in denying absolute rationalism [ratsionalizm]'" (8). These lines, taken from the introduction to James 13. Scanlan's new and fascinating study of Dostoevsky's worldview, express the foundational conviction which drives the book: namely that there is no philosophical ground for labeling Dostoevsky an "irrationalist" nor for demeaning the philosophical importance of his works ... 







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