Достоевский. Метафизика преступления

This monograph deals with the philosophical, sociological, moral and psychological aspects of crime. Crime takes a leading role in many of Dostoevskii's novels, and he is one of the first who discussed the religious and metaphysical issues of the criminal mentality and behavior. This work, multidisciplinary in its subject, traces the evolution of views on crime from Plato through Dostoevskii to Nabokov. It focuses on concepts of 'evil', 'night and day soul', 'intellectual adventure', 'crime as existential experience', 'charismatic crime', 'scandal as a micro-chaos', ' metaphysics of punishment', etc.