Category Archives: Fall of man, series of posts

The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

The subject line for this entry is the title of a book by Peter Harrison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).  In this book and in two earlier books, The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (1998) and ‘Religion’ … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall: a literary interpretation

Posted on September 21, 2010 by

Robin Feuer Miller is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and teaches Russian and European literature of the nineteenth century.  She is a second-generation scholar of Russian literature who specializes in Dostoevsky (her mother, Kathryn B. Feuer, … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall: the story ends; Shestov’s interpretation of it

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

The point in the text where we left off in the last entry isn’t the end of Dostoevsky’s story.  In the morning, the ridiculous man awakes from his “dream” a changed man.  The sight of the revolver he had wanted … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall: “I . . . corrupted them all!”

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

[From Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (New York: Bantam Books, 1997), translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, continuing on p. 295, with section V . . .] V Yes, yes, … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall: “The people of that happy earth”

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

[From Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (New York: Bantam Books, 1997), translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, starting on p. 289, near the end of section III . . .] … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

A titan of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) needs no introduction.  Compared to every other Russian I’ve discussed here, he is a household name.  Nikolai Berdyaev once gushed: So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him … Continue reading →

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Maximus the Confessor, on the trees of Paradise

Posted on September 5, 2010 by

If his interpretation of the trees of Paradise was central for Shestov, to the point that it informed practically all of his writing, curiously, the same was not the case for the Church Fathers.  So says Lars Thunberg in his … Continue reading →

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Shestov, on the Fall

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

In the 1950s, the poet Czeslaw Milosz was living in Paris when he heard through mutual friends that a fellow writer wanted to meet him.  Her name was Sorana Gurian.  She had arrived as a refugee from Romania with nothing, … Continue reading →

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