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By Alina Wyman

This cutting edge learn brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into dialog with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to discover the query of what makes emotional co-experiencing ethically and spiritually efficient. In Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Bakhtin's famous thought of the dialogical accomplice expresses what he sees because the power of human relationships in Dostoevsky's paintings. yet his previous reflections at the moral and aesthetic makes use of of empathy, partly encouraged via Scheler's philosophy, recommend a nonetheless extra basic type of conversation that operates as a foundation for human togetherness in Dostoevsky. utilising this wealthy and formerly overlooked theoretical equipment in a literary research, Wyman examines the hindrances to lively empathy in Dostoevsky's fictional international, considers the constraints and excesses of empathy, addresses the matter of annoyed love in The Idiot and Notes from Underground, and gives a clean interpretation of 2 of Dostoevsky's such a lot iconic characters, Prince Myshkin and Alyosha Karamazov.

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