Dostoevsky's Icon:
Brothers Karamazov, The Christian Past, and The Modern World
Summer Session Class
Instructor: Dr. Jason Baxter
Wednesdays in July, 2024 (Live or Later) Exact Time TBA
REQUIRED TEXTS
We will be reading from the Constance Garnett translation of Brothers Karamazov.
Further list of suggested reading TBA.
IMPORTANT DATES
2/19/24 - Pre-Registration for Current Families Begins
2/23/24 - Pre-Registration Ends
3/4/24 - Registration for New Families Begins
5/31/24 - Last Day to Request Full Refund (Minus Deposit)
6/1/24 - Full Tuition Due
6/1/24 - Payment Plan: 1st Payment Due
7/1/24 - Payment Plan: 2nd Payment Due
8/1/24 - Payment Plan: 3rd Payment Due
8/5/24 - Class Canvas Login Information Sent Out
8/11/24 - Last Day to Request 50% Refund (Minus Deposit)
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Dostoevsky once proclaimed: "Mankind can live without science, and even without bread. But it cannot live without beauty." But what is beauty for Dostoeveky? And why is so hard for mankind in modernity to find it? This four-part summer series will read Dostoevsky's greatest novel, Brothers Karamazov, within the context of European modernity, Russian literature (namely, Tolstoy and Gogol) the development of the novel (especially, Flaubert), as well as ancient Byzantine and Russian spirituality (such as the Philokalia and Way of a Pilgrim). This course will also be the first test drive of my new book, The Little Way of Fr. Zosima (Word on Fire, 2025). Students do not need to have read Brothers Karamazov.
This course will be ideal for those interested in the novel as a literary phenomenon, in Dostoevsky, in the longevity of ancient Christianity, or in the intersection of religion and literature.
TUITION INFORMATION
$150.00 total