TY - BOOK AU - Tolstoy,Leo AU - Medzhibovskaya,Inessa TI - Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An Anthology SN - 9781644694039 AV - PG3366.A13 M43 2022 U1 - 891.73/3 23/eng/20220622 PY - 2022///] CY - Boston, MA PB - Academic Studies Press KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - Autobiographical fiction and nonfiction KW - Philosophy and practice of life KW - agency and political action KW - and society KW - art KW - education and pedagogy KW - law and society KW - mutual aid KW - nonviolence KW - responsibility and justice KW - science KW - studies in the life of the mind and spirituality KW - sustainable living KW - the philosophy of childhood and child psychology N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Credits --; Illustrations and Image Credits --; A Note on the Text --; Editor’s Introduction—“The Magic Mountain”: On the Textual Shape of Tolstoy’s Philosophy --; Section I FRAGMENTS, LETTERS, NOTES, REFLECTIONS, AND TALKS --; PART 1 Tolstoy’s Juvenilia (1835–50) --; PART 2 Writings of the 1850s --; PART 3 Writings of the 1860s --; PART 4 Writings of the 1870s --; PART 5 Writings of the 1880s --; PART 6 Writings of the 1890s --; PART 7 Writings of the 1900s --; Section II FICTIONS --; PART 8 Exercises, Parables, Parodies, Satires, Tales, Vitae, and Visions --; Further Reading in English --; Index of Tolstoy’s Works --; Index of Names and Titles --; Index of Terms --; About the Author; restricted access N2 - The Society for Textual Scholarship Richard J. Finneran Award, Honorable Mention, 2023. For the best edition or book about editorial theory and/or practice published in the English language during 2021-2022.Beginning with Tolstoy’s first extant records of his written œuvre, this anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts that cover more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. It constitutes the most complete single-volume edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output: apothegmatic sayings, visions, intimate sketchbook and day notes, book reviews, open letters, dialogues, pedagogic talks, public lectures, programs and rules for personal behavior, fictions, and reminiscences. Most of these newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have never been available in English. Among the four reprinted translations personally checked and authorized by Tolstoy is the text titled “Tolstoy on Venezuela,” an archival restoration of an authentic first publication in English of “Patriotism, or Peace?” (1896) that had been deemed lost. In the inaugural piece, a seven-year-old Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and non-violence that a hungry wolf teaches a hungry boy during their conversation when both are on their way to lunch.It was the insolvable, the “scandalous,” problems of philosophy that never gave Tolstoy any rest: freedom of the will, religious tolerance, gender inequality, the tonal shape of music, the value of healthy life habits, the responsibilities of teaching, forms of social protest, cognitive development, science in society, the relation between body and mind, charity and labor, human dignity and public service, sexual psychology, national war doctrines, suicide, individual sacrifice, the purposes of making art. And always: What are the sources of violence? Why should we engage in politics? Why do we need governments? How can one practice non-violence? What is the meaning of our irrepressible desire to seek and find meaning? Why can't we live without loving? The typeset proofs of his final insights were brought to Tolstoy for approval when he was already on his deathbed. The reader will find all the texts in the exact shape and order of completion as Tolstoy left them. No matter their brevity or the occasion on which they were written, these works exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive and intellectually absorbing thinker UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644694039?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644694039 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644694039/original ER -