POLITICAL APOCALYPSE
A Study of Dostovesky's Grand Inquistor
By Ellis Sandoz
List Item No. 288
ISBN: 1-882926-51-x (cloth)
287 pages (includes Index)
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Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the great literary figures. He has often been regarded as a prophet foretelling the rise of totalitarian socialism in Russia. But his political vision had deep spiritual roots. His recognition that atheistic materialism had gripped the mind of modern man, who in turn erected "a second tower of Babel…in the place of the high ideals created by Christ," moved him to craft a fiction that resisted the secularization of existence. Dostoevsky's searing struggle with the question of God is famously presented in the legend of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov. Ellis Sandoz's Political Apocalypse illuminates Dostoevsky's achievement and is regarded by many scholars as an essential, masterful work in its own right. Malcolm V. Jones, in his introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The Brothers Karamazov, writes that "Sandoz's magnificent book on the 'Legend of the Grand Inquisitor' is required reading."
What They're Saying...
"A reader must look hard to find a volume that...sees Dosteovsky's political
thought in a more sympathetic light, untainted by liberal presumptions and
dogmas. One such book is Ellis Sandoz's Political Apocalypse: A Study of
Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, which repays frequentation..."
— George A. Panichas, editor, Modern Age and author of Growing Wings to Overcome Gravity
"By placing Dostoevsky fully in the context of his day and culture,
particularly as a religious thinker, Sandoz offers us a learned and profound
interpretation of 'The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor' in The Brothers
Karamazov. I am not acquainted with anything in English that equals in breadth
of learning and acuity Sandoz's interpretation. On need not agree with it to
recognize its value."
— Eliseo Vivas
"Reading Dostoevsky demands uncommon spiritual literacy and I can think of no better Virgil with whom to take 'the pilgrimage from Crime and Punishment to The Brothers Karamozov' than Ellis Sandoz. Thanks to ISI, a
new generation of students will now enjoy Sandoz's wise and companionable book."
— Thomas D'Evelyn
"Sandoz gives a convincing account of the 'Legend' as 'an allegory of the cosmic drama of the creation as this is played out in the history of mankind and in the microcosm of the human soul....' Sandoz's explication of this powerful work will make readers want to tackle it themselves, and reach their own conclusions."
— National Review
"This new edition of Ellis Sandoz's magisterial Political Apocalypse is a major event in Dostoevsky studies. His book constitutes a compelling, forceful, and subtle reading of Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor," which has no parallel in the
literature, and which no serious student of Dostoevsky can afford to neglect.
— Malcolm V. Jones, Emeritus Professor of Russian at the University of Nottingham, UK
"There have been several interpretations of Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor; none is as satisfying, as full, or as provocative as that offered by Ellis Sandoz."
— Times Literary Supplement
Chapters Include:
- Roots of Russian Revolutionism
- Intellectual Currents: Hegelianism à la Russe
- Spiritual Currents: Orthodoxy and Sectarianism
- Suffering and Faith
- Christ: The Principle of Active Love
- Rebellion as a Spiritual Disease
- Personal Freedom and Human Nature
- The Tension of Existence: Institutions and Order
- Dostoevsky's Political Theory
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