The Table of Contents of:
POLITICAL APOCALYPSE

Preface

Introduction

Part One: Major Formative Factors: A Sketch

Chapter 1: Roots of Russian Revolutionism

1. Intellectual Currents: Hegelianism a la Russe
2. Western Revolutionism and Ideology
3. Spiritual Currents: Orthodoxy and Sectarianism

Chapter 2: Faith and the Nature of Man

1. Man and the Divine
2. The Experiential Ground of Faith
3. Suffering and Faith
4. Mythopoesis and Mystical Theology

Part Two: The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor

Chapter 3: The Legend as Political Apocalypse

1. Dostoevsky's Intentions: Survey of Materials
2. Perspective and Method of Analysis
3. Structure and Sources
4. Political Apocalypse

Chapter 4: Leitmotifs

1. Christ: The Principle of Active Love
2. Confessions of Faith
3. The Grand Inquisitor: The Principle of Negation

Chapter 5: The Temptation: Trial and Apocalypse

1. Dostoevsky and Solovyov
2. Apocalypse and History
3. Biblical Context
4. The First Temptation
5. The Second Temptation
6. The Third Temptation
7. Culture and Crisis

Chapter 6: Metaphysics and Rebellion

1. The Devil and Ivan: Active Negation and New Men
2. Rebellion as a Spiritual Disease
3. Ethical Theory
4. Metaphysical Rebellion

Chapter 7: Philosophical Anthropology

1. Personal Freedom and Human Nature
2. Time and Eternity
3. The Last Judgment

Part Three: Conclusion

Chapter 8: The Range of Politics

1. The Transcendent and the Immanent
2. Esoteric and Exoteric Politics
3. The Tension of Existence: Institutions and Order

Chapter 9: Conclusion: Dostoevsky's Political Theory

Index

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