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Book Tolstoy s Theory of Social Reform

Download or read book Tolstoy s Theory of Social Reform written by Milivoy S. Stanoyevich and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tolstoy s Theory of Social Reform

Download or read book Tolstoy s Theory of Social Reform written by Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tolstoy s Theory of Social Reform

Download or read book Tolstoy s Theory of Social Reform written by Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tolstoy s Theory of Social Reform  His Doctrine of Law  Money  and Property

Download or read book Tolstoy s Theory of Social Reform His Doctrine of Law Money and Property written by Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Slavery of Our Times

Download or read book The Slavery of Our Times written by Leo Tolstoy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Slavery of Our Times is a socially critical pamphlet written by Tolstoy in 1900. In this work, Tolstoy describes the miserable situation of the laborers in the plants of Russia. He writes that people work for thirty-six hours in succession and suffer from the tyranny exerted by their masters. In the pamphlet, Tolstoy demands the conditions of a decent life be created for those people.

Book The Meaning of the Russian Revolution

Download or read book The Meaning of the Russian Revolution written by Leo Tolstoy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Meaning of the Russian Revolution" is a novel by Nobel Prize winning and highly-acclaimed Russian author Leo Tolstoy. In describing the 1905 Russian Revolution Tolstoy traces back the history of Europe as a whole and Russia in particular. He suggests that the nation has come full circle and that the people who had earlier submitted themselves to monarchical rule now find themselves burdened with its excesses and corruption. He however advocates for non-violent revolution as the means to bring about a new Russian society.

Book Mimetic Lives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chloë Kitzinger
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2021-09-15
  • ISBN : 0810143984
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Mimetic Lives written by Chloë Kitzinger and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic illusion that Chloë Kitzinger calls mimetic life—the reader’s sense of a character’s autonomous, embodied existence. At the same time, both authors tested the practical limits of that illusion by extending it toward the novel’s formal and generic bounds: philosophy, history, journalism, theology, myth. Through new readings of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, and other novels, Kitzinger traces a productive tension between mimetic characterization and the author’s ambition to transform the reader. She shows how Tolstoy and Dostoevsky create lifelike characters and why the dream of carrying the illusion of “life” beyond the novel consistently fails. Mimetic Lives challenges the contemporary truism that novels educate us by providing enduring models for the perspectives of others, with whom we can then better empathize. Seen close, the realist novel’s power to create a world of compelling fictional persons underscores its resources as a form for thought and its limits as a direct source of spiritual, social, or political change. Drawing on scholarship in Russian literary studies as well as the theory of the novel, Kitzinger’s lucid work of criticism will intrigue and challenge scholars working in both fields.

Book Yasnaya Polyana School

Download or read book Yasnaya Polyana School written by Leo Tolstoy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Yasnaya Polyana School' is a publication written by Leo Tolstoy about the school for peasant children that he opened at his home. He delineates the curriculum, the schedule, and the number of classes held, while also including anecdotes such as a fight between two of the pupils and a thieving student.

Book The Kingdom of God is Within You

Download or read book The Kingdom of God is Within You written by Leo Tolstoy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel. In this treatise Tolstoy explains that he feels that the Church's doctrines are mistaken because they have made a "perversion" of Christ's true teaching. He then goes on to explain what those teachings are and how one can become a true Christian in this war prone world. The title of the book is taken from Luke 17:21. In the book Tolstoy speaks of the principle of nonviolent resistance when confronted by violence, as taught by Jesus Christ. When Christ says to turn the other cheek, Tolstoy asserts that Christ means to abolish violence, even the defensive kind, and to give up revenge. Tolstoy rejects the interpretation of Roman and medieval scholars who attempted to limit its scope. "How can you kill people, when it is written in God's commandment: 'Thou shalt not murder'?" Tolstoy took the viewpoint that all governments who waged war are an affront to Christian principles. Content: Introduction: Leo Tolstoy: A Short Biography "Tolstoy the Artist" and "Tolstoy the Preacher" by Ivan Panin The Kingdom of God is Within You Autobiographical: Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son by Graf Ilia LvovichTolstoi My Visit to Tolstoy by Joseph Krauskopf

Book Labour  The Divine Command

Download or read book Labour The Divine Command written by Leo Tolstoy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labour: The Divine Command is about Tolstoy's argument against the disparity between social classes. Tolstoy argues in favor of rights for workers and admonishes those perpetuating the system of capitalism. Excerpt: "Tatian, one of the fathers of the early Church, says the misfortunes of men come less from their ignorance of the true God than from their faith in false gods... Bondareff affirms that the crimes and misfortunes of men result from their accepting as sacred duties precepts that are frivolous and hurtful, while they forget and conceal from themselves and others that which incontestably the first and most important of duties..."

Book An Anthology of Single Land Tax Thought

Download or read book An Anthology of Single Land Tax Thought written by Kenneth C. Wenzer and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of the Single Land Tax (or the single tax on land value, as it is usually known) and of Henry George go hand in hand, for this was a major tenet of his political economy. This final volume in the Henry George Centennial Trilogy comprises selections from the works of distinguished scholars, both past and present, on the single land tax and its relation to Georgist philosophy. Drawing upon principles of land economics, they offer detailed and diverse insights into the concept of a single tax based on land value and the practical uses of land value taxation in industrialised economies as an effective and equable way to redistribute wealth.

Book Tolstoy and His Problems

Download or read book Tolstoy and His Problems written by Inessa Medzhibovskaya and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy's thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group of Tolstoy specialists who are leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences. In the broadest sense—with essays on a variety of issues that occupied Tolstoy, such as nihilism, mysticism, social theory, religion, Judaism, education, opera, and Shakespeare—the volume offers a fresh evaluation of Tolstoy's program to reform the ways we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice spirituality, exchange ideas and knowledge, become educated, and speak and think about history and social change.

Book Leo Tolstoy as a Social Reformer

Download or read book Leo Tolstoy as a Social Reformer written by Georgia Lorraine Cox and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theory  Justice  and Social Change

Download or read book Theory Justice and Social Change written by Christopher R. Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, social and intellectual crises have given rise to compelling suggestions for reform steeped in various progressive sensibilities. For example, within the discipline of criminology -- particularly during the 1980’s and 1990’s -- a number of unconventional theoretical perspectives emerged that sought to challenge many of the assumptions embedded within its own mainstream discourse, and to propose alternative solutions for meaningful, sustainable change. Conceived of as "critical" in overarching orientation, these efforts to rethink the foundations of criminological verstehen can be traced to several specific theoretical and methodological strands of inquiry (e.g., anarchism, peacemaking, chaos theory, postmodernism). Though distinct in some respects, these emerging models are linked paradigmatically by their shared discontent with conventional criminological thought and by their radicalized posture toward existing and previously unexamined epistemic crises. Collectively, this is an agenda for reform that seeks to establish a more humane and just social order, particularly as citizens and society confront the institutional and communal problems posed by crime, delinquency, and deviance. Theory, Justice, and Social Change: Theoretical Integrations and Critical Applications represents a provocative series of essays that systematically reviews or extends the role of critical social theory in fostering justice and change in several relevant, though problematic, social contexts. Mindful of the need to address both conceptual exegeses and pragmatic concerns, the articles contained in this volume grapple with the ongoing "double crisis" that confronts theory and practice in the construction of knowledge. By appropriating and integrating various insights from several heterodox and critically animated lines of inquiry, each chapter deftly exposes where and how conventional sociological and criminological thought has failed to effectively address such human social issues as homelessness, mental illness, minority rights, juvenile justice, global violence, and criminal punishment. In doing so, Theory, Justice, and Social Change provides new and much needed direction regarding theory development in the social sciences, and indicates why charting such a course of theory/action yields more enlightened prospects for justice and change in society and in our lives.

Book Help for the Starving

Download or read book Help for the Starving written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian novelist wrote this book in 1892. It is not a novel but a piece of research into hunger in late nineteenth-century Russia. His findings are interesting for he asserts that although there is a fuel shortage and there had been a bad harvest of some crops, other crops like rye and potatoes had been good. It seems that he links destitution and starvation more to the character of those in this situation than to their circumstances.

Book The American Journal of Sociology

Download or read book The American Journal of Sociology written by Albion W. Small and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists.

Book Second Tolstoy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Hickey
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2021-11-12
  • ISBN : 1725285355
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Second Tolstoy written by Steve Hickey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few if any have devoted more years to practicing and teaching others to practice the precepts of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount than Leo Tolstoy. He stands apart in the history of interpretation and has had enormous influence on others and other countries. Yet, Gandhi or others often get the glory. Tolstoy is remembered as a great writer, but his religious and philosophical works are by and large unknown or disparaged, even in scholarly Tolstoyan circles. His contribution is substantially under-appreciated and misunderstood. In Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics, Steve Hickey captures the particulars and dynamics of Tolstoy’s interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount from a deliberately sympathetic vantage point. Underlying this project is shared belief with Tolstoy that the Sermon on the Mount is liveable and to be lived. While from the vantage point of traditional orthodoxy Tolstoy got much wrong, there remains a lack of appreciation for what he got right—radical obedience to the teachings of Jesus. A new vocabulary is proposed to more precisely capture Tolstoyan lived theology, namely the political and social expressions of Tolstoyan Christianity, with the hope that these theories and practices will gain a wider consideration, understanding, and following.