Dostoevsky’s Icon: Brothers Karamazov, the Christian Past, and the Modern World (Summer Class)
$150.00
A Summer Class by Dr. Jason Baxter
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 Dr. Jason Baxter’s 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.
Exact meeting time TBA.
Wednesdays in July, 2024 (Live or Later) • $150.00
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A Summer Class by Dr. Jason Baxter
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 Dr. Jason Baxter’s 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.
Exact meeting time TBA.
Wednesdays in July, 2024 (Live or Later) • $150.00
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