Kaleidoscope: F.M. Dostoevsky and the Early Dialectical Theology

Introducing a new hermeneutics, this book explores the correlation between the personal faith of F.M. Dostoevsky and the religious quality of his texts. In offering the first comprehensive analysis of his ego documents, it establishes how faith has methodologically to be defined by the inaccessibility of the 'living person'. This thesis, which draws on the work of M.M. Bakhtin, is further developed by critically examining the reception of Dostoevsky by the two main representatives of early ...