Anna Karenina in Our Time: Seeing More WiselyIn this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina, Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows why readers have misunderstood Tolstoy's characters and intentions. Morson argues that Tolstoy's ideas are far more radical than has been thought: his masterpiece challenges deeply held conceptions of romantic love, the process of social reform, modernization, and the nature of good and evil. By investigating the ethical, philosophical, and social issues with which Tolstoy grappled, Morson finds in Anna Karenina powerful connections with the concerns of today. He proposes that Tolstoy's effort to see the world more wisely can deeply inform our own search for wisdom in the present day.
The book offers brilliant analyses of Anna, Karenin, Dolly, Levin, and other characters, with a particularly subtle portrait of Anna's extremism and self-deception. Morson probes Tolstoy's important insights (evil is often the result of negligence; goodness derives from small, everyday deeds) and completes the volume with an irresistible, original list of One Hundred and Sixty-Three Tolstoyan Conclusions.
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Introduction | 1 |
Tolstoy today 9 Theoretical and practical knowledge 13 Astronomy | 30 |
Two bad lives 35 Overcoming the bias of the artifact 36 | 53 |
Part One Anna and the Kinds of Love | 62 |
Contents | 79 |
Part Three Annas Suicide and the Totalism of Meaning | 118 |
Part One Why Reforms Succeed or Fail | 143 |
Levins Idea Its Corollaries and Analogues Selfimprovement | 168 |
Extending Levins idea 168 Three ways not to answer 169 Kitty and self | 181 |
Part Three Meaning and Ethics | 197 |
One Hundred SixtyThree Tolstoyan Conclusions | 223 |