Iconology and hypostatics in Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" and in the works of Augustine.

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Ioan Onujec, Ioan Onujec
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Iconology and hypostatics in Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" and in the works of Augustine.

This study deals with the status of personhood in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and the works of Augustine. Two categories are central for the mapping out of a person: icon and hypostasis. The semiotic category of icon generates a foundational iconostasis (e.g., freedom-faith-love-hope or power-mystery-worship-authority) circumscribing a person, while the religious category of hypostasis denotes the co-inherent or common substance that underlies icons and persons. The study of icon (iconology) and the study of hypostasis (hypostatics) are undertaken in order to foreground person-bound ethical and soteriological praxis in Augustine and Dostoevsky. In studying personhood, two complementary methodological strategies are implemented: close textual analysis and the expansion of the theoretical apparatus and framework. Grounded in the interpreted text and theory, modeling strategies are designed for capturing person-versions and world-versions. The main part of this study develops an interpretation of iconology and hypostatics in Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov through the close textual interpretation of the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor. The second focus of the study proposes an iconologic and dialogic interface between the most prominent Dostoevskian and Augustinian icons in order to illuminate their internal similar typological substance, an enterprise designed ultimately to foster a better understanding of the iconology and hypostatics in The Brothers Karamazov.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Page 1
One:. The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor
I). The Legend as Model of the World and Artistic Thinking
Page 15
II). The Category of Hypostatic Person
Page 28
III). The First Temptation
Page 39
IV). The Model of Hypostatic Thinking
Page 52
V). The Second Temptation
Page 67
VI). The Third Temptation
Page 73
Two:. Faces of Iconicity
I). Synoptic Iconicity
Page 92
II). Icon and Iconostasis
Page 97
III). Nature, Icon, and Hypostasis
Page 105
IV). Iconologic Similarity and Dissimilarity
Page 119
Three:. Ivan's and Zosima's World-Versions
I). Interpersonality and Interworldliness
Page 124
II). Ivan's World-Version
Page 127
III). Zosima's World-Version
Page 137
Four:. Icon and Hypostasis in Augustine and Dostoevsky
I). Ontic Power in Augustine and Dostoevsky
a). Ontic Power in Augustine
Page 147
b). Ontic Power in Dostoevsky
Page 156
c). "Everything is Permitted"
Page 159
II). Inanity in Augustine and Dostoevsky
Page 172
a). Inanity in Augustine
Page 173
b). Inanity in Dostoevsky
Page 193
III). Freedom in Augustine and Dostoevsky
a). Freedom and Liberty in Augustine
Page 202
b). Freedom and Choice in Dostoevsky
Page 227
c). Freedom, Hope, and Happiness
Page 248
Concluding Remarks
Page 261
Bibliography
Page 264

Edition Notes

Adviser: Brian Stock.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

Electronic version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1770.

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278 leaves.
Number of pages
278

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OL20338757M
ISBN 10
0612918408

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OL13060405W

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The work tackles the uniqueness of three doctrines in Augustine and Dostoevsky: 1) the doctrine of substance and nonbeing (ontology), 2) the doctrine of meaning and meaninglessness (iconology), and the doctrine of freedom and person (hypostatics).

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