Dostoevsky Call for Papers

[Robert Bird]

Dear colleagues,

Studies in East European Thought
announces a thematic issue devoted to

“DOSTOEVSKIJ’S SIGNIFICANCE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY”
Advisory Editor Robert Bird, University of Chicago

During his lifetime Dostoevskij was recognized as a major intellectual 
presence in Russia by such luminaries as Vissarion Belinskij and Vladimir 
Solov’ev. Similar renown was quick to develop abroad, beginning with 
Nietzsche. A century later Dostoevskij’s significance for philosophy and 
theology remains the topic of hot debate, as witnessed by a spate of recent 
books such as James Scanlan’s Dostoevsky the Thinker and Steven Cassedy’s 
Dostoevsky’s Religion. Studies in East European Thought will include a 
thematic issue in 2007 devoted to new approaches to Dostoevskij’s 
distinctive philosophical and theological voice. Proposals for papers are 
welcome which delve into Dostoevskij’s appropriation of and influence on 
specific philosophers or theologians, his fate at the hands of later 
interpreters, and his role in stimulating new questions for literary studies 
or aesthetics. Authors are especially encouraged to examine the status of 
philosophical or theological discourse in the novels.

Authors are requested to submit proposals for papers (maximum 150 words) no 
later than 30 May 2006 to the Editor of Studies in East European Thought 
Edward Swiderski (edward.swiderski at unifr.ch) or to the advisory editor for 
the Dostoevskij issue, Robert Bird (bird at uchicago.edu). Accepted papers 
should be submitted by September 1, for publication in early 2007.

Robert Bird

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Chicago
1130 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637 USA

tel. 773.834.2179
fax 773.702.7030

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