Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana Evdokimova

I. Encounters with Science

1. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russiäs Radical Youth

David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson

2. Darwin¿s Plots, Malthus¿s Mighty Feast, Lamennais¿s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky¿s Lost Sheep

Liza Knapp

3. ¿Viper will eat viper¿: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood

Anna A. Berman

4. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and ¿Our Dostoevsky¿

Daniel P. Todes

II. Engagements with Philosophy

5. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of ¿the Meaning of Life¿

Steven Cassedy

6. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief

David S. Cunningham

7. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher

Charles Larmore

8. ¿If there¿s no immortality of the soul . . . everything is lawful¿: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov¿s Idea

Sergei A. Kibalnik

III. Questions of Aesthetics

9. Once Again about Dostoevsky¿s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger¿s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb

Robert L. Jackson

10. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky¿s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov

Susanne Fusso

11. Dostoevsky¿s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation

Svetlana Evdokimova

IV. The Self and the Other

12. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double

Gary Saul Morson

13. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm

Yuri Corrigan

14. Dostoevsky¿s Angel¿Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov

Michal Oklot

15. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky¿s Crime and Punishment

Vladimir Golstein

16. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead

Carol Apollonio

17. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky¿s ¿The Dream of a Ridiculous Man¿

Deborah A. Martinsen

18. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky¿Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes

Inessa Medzhibovskaya

V. Intercultural Connections

19. Achilles in Crime and Punishment

Donna Orwin

20. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac¿s Binding)

Olga Meerson

21. Prince Myshkin¿s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom

Marina Kostalevsky