Predrag Cicovacki is a professor of philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. His research interests include Kant, violence and nonviolence, and problems of good and evil. He was a Senior Fulbright-Nehru fellow in India (2012-2013) and is the author or editor of numerous essays and books, including Destined for Evil?, Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision, and Kant's Legacy.
-When reason is not enough to grasp the paradoxes and riddles of
life, then faith must come to terms with them. It is both
refreshing and liberating that Cicovacki, a professor of philosophy
not literature, avoids the jargon and cant of literary studies and
subsequently feels no need to bow before the altars of various
distracting postmodern pieties. This is a solid work of scholarship
and common sense... Recommended.- --D. Pesta, Choice -Fedor
Dostoevskii is commonly perceived as a gloomy writer who focused on
the dark side of life, on crime, madness, injustice, and suffering.
Predrag Cicovacki finds that, while Dostoevskii's uncompromising
realism led him to depict the manifest evil in the world, his
optimistic faith that life has meaning is always discernible. . . .
Cicovacki makes a thoughtful case for Dostoevskii's optimism. . . .
[H]e frequently interweaves his study with speculative connections
between Dostoevskii's fiction and numerous artists, writers,
thinkers, and philosophers.- --Diane Oenning Thompson, Slavic
Review -[A] lively and absorbing journey... Cicovacki's
discriminating and subtle criticism challenges many fixed
assumptions about Dostoevsky's writings and worldview- --Robert L.
Jackson, author of Dostoevsky's Quest for Form and Dialogues with
Dostoevsky -This book is a philosophical investigation of a
paradox: How does Dostoevsky succeed in uplifting people's hearts
by telling tales full of sound and fury? Predrag Cicovacki's answer
is an inspiring offer to read Dostoevsky's classics a new, with a
figure in the carpet woven by Hegel.- --Horst-JUrgen Gerigk,
editor-in-chief of Dostoevsky Studies -[Q]uite possibly the best
single volume written in English on the greatest writer of the
Nineteenth Century.- --Nalin Ranasinghe, author of The Soul of
Socrates and Socrates in the Underworld -[I]nteresting and
enthralling.- --Ruben Apressyan, Head of the Department of Ethics
at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences -No
serious student of the writer can afford to overlook this
penetrating, erudite and insightful study.- --Joseph Frank, author,
Dostoevsky; Stanford University -Cicovacki summarizes Dostoevsky's
religious and moral positions and those of his characters in the
light of later critics and earlier thinkers and artists. Whether
one accepts or rejects the summaries, the book provokes serious
thinking.- --Robert Belknap, professor emeritus and director of
university seminars, Columbia University; author, The Genesis of
The Brothers Karamazov: The Aesthetics, Ideology, and Psychology of
Making a Text
"When reason is not enough to grasp the paradoxes and riddles of
life, then faith must come to terms with them. It is both
refreshing and liberating that Cicovacki, a professor of philosophy
not literature, avoids the jargon and cant of literary studies and
subsequently feels no need to bow before the altars of various
distracting postmodern pieties. This is a solid work of scholarship
and common sense... Recommended." --D. Pesta, Choice "Fedor
Dostoevskii is commonly perceived as a gloomy writer who focused on
the dark side of life, on crime, madness, injustice, and suffering.
Predrag Cicovacki finds that, while Dostoevskii's uncompromising
realism led him to depict the manifest evil in the world, his
optimistic faith that life has meaning is always discernible. . . .
Cicovacki makes a thoughtful case for Dostoevskii's optimism. . . .
[H]e frequently interweaves his study with speculative connections
between Dostoevskii's fiction and numerous artists, writers,
thinkers, and philosophers." --Diane Oenning Thompson, Slavic
Review "[A] lively and absorbing journey... Cicovacki's
discriminating and subtle criticism challenges many fixed
assumptions about Dostoevsky's writings and worldview" --Robert L.
Jackson, author of Dostoevsky's Quest for Form and Dialogues with
Dostoevsky "This book is a philosophical investigation of a
paradox: How does Dostoevsky succeed in uplifting people's hearts
by telling tales full of sound and fury? Predrag Cicovacki's answer
is an inspiring offer to read Dostoevsky's classics a new, with a
figure in the carpet woven by Hegel." --Horst-JUrgen Gerigk,
editor-in-chief of Dostoevsky Studies "[Q]uite possibly the best
single volume written in English on the greatest writer of the
Nineteenth Century." --Nalin Ranasinghe, author of The Soul of
Socrates and Socrates in the Underworld "[I]nteresting and
enthralling." --Ruben Apressyan, Head of the Department of Ethics
at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences "No
serious student of the writer can afford to overlook this
penetrating, erudite and insightful study." --Joseph Frank, author,
Dostoevsky; Stanford University "Cicovacki summarizes Dostoevsky's
religious and moral positions and those of his characters in the
light of later critics and earlier thinkers and artists. Whether
one accepts or rejects the summaries, the book provokes serious
thinking." --Robert Belknap, professor emeritus and director of
university seminars, Columbia University; author, The Genesis of
The Brothers Karamazov: The Aesthetics, Ideology, and Psychology of
Making a Text
"When reason is not enough to grasp the paradoxes and riddles of
life, then faith must come to terms with them. It is both
refreshing and liberating that Cicovacki, a professor of philosophy
not literature, avoids the jargon and cant of literary studies and
subsequently feels no need to bow before the altars of various
distracting postmodern pieties. This is a solid work of scholarship
and common sense... Recommended." --D. Pesta, Choice "Fedor
Dostoevskii is commonly perceived as a gloomy writer who focused on
the dark side of life, on crime, madness, injustice, and suffering.
Predrag Cicovacki finds that, while Dostoevskii's uncompromising
realism led him to depict the manifest evil in the world, his
optimistic faith that life has meaning is always discernible. . . .
Cicovacki makes a thoughtful case for Dostoevskii's optimism. . . .
[H]e frequently interweaves his study with speculative connections
between Dostoevskii's fiction and numerous artists, writers,
thinkers, and philosophers." --Diane Oenning Thompson, Slavic
Review "[A] lively and absorbing journey... Cicovacki's
discriminating and subtle criticism challenges many fixed
assumptions about Dostoevsky's writings and worldview" --Robert L.
Jackson, author of Dostoevsky's Quest for Form and Dialogues with
Dostoevsky "This book is a philosophical investigation of a
paradox: How does Dostoevsky succeed in uplifting people's hearts
by telling tales full of sound and fury? Predrag Cicovacki's answer
is an inspiring offer to read Dostoevsky's classics a new, with a
figure in the carpet woven by Hegel." --Horst-JUrgen Gerigk,
editor-in-chief of Dostoevsky Studies "[Q]uite possibly the best
single volume written in English on the greatest writer of the
Nineteenth Century." --Nalin Ranasinghe, author of The Soul of
Socrates and Socrates in the Underworld "[I]nteresting and
enthralling." --Ruben Apressyan, Head of the Department of Ethics
at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences "No
serious student of the writer can afford to overlook this
penetrating, erudite and insightful study." --Joseph Frank, author,
Dostoevsky; Stanford University "Cicovacki summarizes Dostoevsky's
religious and moral positions and those of his characters in the
light of later critics and earlier thinkers and artists. Whether
one accepts or rejects the summaries, the book provokes serious
thinking." --Robert Belknap, professor emeritus and director of
university seminars, Columbia University; author, The Genesis of
The Brothers Karamazov: The Aesthetics, Ideology, and Psychology of
Making a Text
"When reason is not enough to grasp the paradoxes and riddles of
life, then faith must come to terms with them. It is both
refreshing and liberating that Cicovacki, a professor of philosophy
not literature, avoids the jargon and cant of literary studies and
subsequently feels no need to bow before the altars of various
distracting postmodern pieties. This is a solid work of scholarship
and common sense... Recommended." --D. Pesta, "Choice" "[A] lively
and absorbing journey... Cicovacki's discriminating and subtle
criticism challenges many fixed assumptions about Dostoevsky's
writings and worldview" --Robert L. Jackson, author of Dostoevsky's
Quest for Form and Dialogues with Dostoevsky "This book is a
philosophical investigation of a paradox: How does Dostoevsky
succeed in uplifting people's hearts by telling tales full of sound
and fury? Predrag Cicovacki's answer is an inspiring offer to read
Dostoevsky's classics a new, with a figure in the carpet woven by
Hegel." --Horst-Jurgen Gerigk, editor-in-chief of Dostoevsky
Studies "[Q]uite possibly the best single volume written in English
on the greatest writer of the Nineteenth Century." --Nalin
Ranasinghe, author of The Soul of Socrates and Socrates in the
Underworld "[I]nteresting and enthralling." --Ruben Apressyan, Head
of the Department of Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian
Academy of Sciences "Cicovacki's Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of
Life belongs to the best traditions of metaphysically and
theologically informed criticism and interpretation. Rich in
intellectual and spiritual insight, it makes a powerful and
convincing case for Dostoevsky's 'positive philosophy of life' . .
. Cicovacki, a philosopher deeply versed in Dostoevsky's work,
takes the reader on a lively and absorbing." --Robert L. Jackson,
Yale University "No serious student of the writer can afford to
overlook this penetrating, erudite and insightful study." --Joseph
Frank, aut
"[A] lively and absorbing journey... Cicovacki's discriminating and
subtle criticism challenges many fixed assumptions about
Dostoevsky's writings and worldview" --Robert L. Jackson, author of
Dostoevsky's Quest for Form and Dialogues with Dostoevsky "This
book is a philosophical investigation of a paradox: How does
Dostoevsky succeed in uplifting people's hearts by telling tales
full of sound and fury? Predrag Cicovacki's answer is an inspiring
offer to read Dostoevsky's classics a new, with a figure in the
carpet woven by Hegel." --Horst-Jurgen Gerigk, editor-in-chief of
Dostoevsky Studies "[Q]uite possibly the best single volume written
in English on the greatest writer of the Nineteenth Century."
--Nalin Ranasinghe, author of The Soul of Socrates and Socrates in
the Underworld "[I]nteresting and enthralling." --Ruben Apressyan,
Head of the Department of Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy,
Russian Academy of Sciences "Cicovacki's Dostoevsky and the
Affirmation of Life belongs to the best traditions of
metaphysically and theologically informed criticism and
interpretation. Rich in intellectual and spiritual insight, it
makes a powerful and convincing case for Dostoevsky's 'positive
philosophy of life' . . . Cicovacki, a philosopher deeply versed in
Dostoevsky's work, takes the reader on a lively and absorbing."
--Robert L. Jackson, Yale University "No serious student of the
writer can afford to overlook this penetrating, erudite and
insightful study." --Joseph Frank, author, Dostoevsky; Stanford
University "Cicovacki summarizes Dostoevsky's religious and moral
positions and those of his characters in the light of later critics
and earlier thinkers and artists. Whether one accepts or rejects
the summaries, the book provokes serious thinking." --Robert
Belknap, professor emeritus and director of university seminars,
Columbia University; author, The Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov:
The Aesthetics, Ideology,
"[A] lively and absorbing journey... Cicovacki's discriminating and
subtle criticism challenges many fixed assumptions about
Dostoevsky's writings and worldview"--Robert L. Jackson, author of
Dostoevsky's Quest for Form and Dialogues with Dostoevsky"This book
is a philosophical investigation of a paradox: How does Dostoevsky
succeed in uplifting people's hearts by telling tales full of sound
and fury? Predrag Cicovacki's answer is an inspiring offer to read
Dostoevsky's classics a new, with a figure in the carpet woven by
Hegel."--Horst-Jurgen Gerigk, editor-in-chief of Dostoevsky
Studies"[Q]uite possibly the best single volume written in English
on the greatest writer of the Nineteenth Century."--Nalin
Ranasinghe, author of The Soul of Socrates and Socrates in the
Underworld"[I]nteresting and enthralling."--Ruben Apressyan, Head
of the Department of Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian
Academy of Sciences"Cicovacki's Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of
Life belongs to the best traditions of metaphysically and
theologically informed criticism and interpretation. Rich in
intellectual and spiritual insight, it makes a powerful and
convincing case for Dostoevsky's 'positive philosophy of life' . .
. Cicovacki, a philosopher deeply versed in Dostoevsky's work,
takes the reader on a lively and absorbing."--Robert L. Jackson,
Yale University"No serious student of the writer can afford to
overlook this penetrating, erudite and insightful study."--Joseph
Frank, author, Dostoevsky; Stanford University "Cicovacki
summarizes Dostoevsky's religious and moral positions and those of
his characters in the light of later critics and earlier thinkers
and artists. Whether one accepts or rejects the summaries, the book
provokes serious thinking."--Robert Belknap, professor emeritus and
director of university seminars, Columbia University; author, The
Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov: The Aesthetics, Ideology, and
Psychology of Making
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