Tolstoy's War and Peace: Philosophical Perspectives
Predrag Cicovacki (ed.)
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2024
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9780197625910
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9780197625873
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Steiner, Lina, 'War and Peace and the Origins of Tolstoy’s Religion', in Predrag Cicovacki (ed.), Tolstoy's War and Peace: Philosophical Perspectives (2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 June 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197625873.003.0008, accessed 25 June 2024.
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Abstract
This chapter examines Tolstoy’s budding religious philosophy by tracing the trajectories of the four central characters whose inner biographies represent different vectors of Russian society’s spiritual development during the first quarter of the nineteenth century: Prince Andrei, Princess Marya, Pierre, and Natasha. Marya, with her unwavering religious devotion and sentimentality, serves as a foil and counterpoint to her skeptical brother, who overcomes his unbelief and embraces God only on his deathbed. Pierre’s narrative offers rich material for understanding the phenomenon of the Decembrist liberalism. It reflects Tolstoy’s engagement with Christopher Martin Wieland’s Bildungsroman The History of Agathon, as well as with the philosophy of early German Romanticism that wed Spinoza’s monist metaphysics to Fichte’s philosophy of freedom. Tolstoy’s deepest religious insights that foreshadow his later writings on religion are expressed through his portrayal of Natasha, who represents what Leibnitz and the Romantics called vis viva and inspires the longing for the infinite.
Keywords: enthusiasm, faith, freedom, Herder, love, religious experience, Schleiermacher, skepticism, Spinoza, Wieland
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Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
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Lina Steiner, War and Peace and the Origins of Tolstoy’s Religion In: Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Edited by: Predrag Cicovacki, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197625873.003.0008
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