The Liberation of Life through Death

Reading Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-07615-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 49 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 213 g

This book undertakes to show how the exercise of reading Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” involves articulating for ourselves, as readers, what it means to liberate life through death. What Tolstoy’s short story shows us, the author argues, is that life can be truly liberated through death only when we see that death is neither a supernatural event nor a natural end but involves a work of love. In Part 1 of his study, the author addresses the common assumptions that give rise to the idea that religious and secular views of life and death are opposed in modernity. He also examines the history of values that Tolstoy’s story embodies. In Part 2, he analyses the life and death of Ivan Ilyich in order to show that the values that are embedded in Tolstoy’s story are at once religious and secular.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoult, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Liberation of Life from the Dualism of Supernatural and Natural Ends.- Part II: The Life and Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Hoult is currently serving as a part-time instructor at the University of Guelph and at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo. The overall focus of his academic research is the relationship between philosophy and theology, reason and faith, and the religious and the secular in works of modern philosophy and literature.