Main God and Man According to Tolstoy

God and Man According to Tolstoy

5.0 / 5.0
0 comments
This polemical work treats Tolstoy as one of the midwives of modern counterculture and reassesses his enduring influence. Boot argues that Tolstoy’s philosophy was based on a metaphysical blunder and tries to correct preconceived notions of Tolstoy’s work. Through a unique examination of Tolstoy’s religious beliefs, Boot arrives at the conclusion that Tolstoy was not a Christian, as widely thought, but a self-deifying atheist and nihilist. These traits are traced back to Tolstoy’s personality which, according to the psychiatric report used in the book, may have been influenced by mental instability. From these new angles on Tolstoy, the book is able to shed light into the historical and intellectual landscape of Russia.
Request Code : ZLIBIO610229
Categories:
Year:
2009
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Language:
English
Pages:
254
ISBN 10:
0230615864
ISBN 13:
9780230615861
ISBN:
0230615864,9780230615861

Comments of this book

There are no comments yet.