A Golden Age? Dostoevsky, Daoism and Education
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| Title: | A Golden Age? Dostoevsky, Daoism and Education |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Roberts, Peter |
| Source: | Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education. Aug 2016 47(3):249-266. |
| Availability: | Springer. 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-348-4505; e-mail: service-ny@springer.com; Web site: http://www.springerlink.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2016 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Russian Literature, Classics (Literature), Literary Genres, Fiction, Social Environment, Peace, Conflict, Abstract Reasoning, Psychological Patterns, Religious Factors, Beliefs, Credibility, Educational Development, Comparative Analysis |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10780-015-9275-1 |
| ISSN: | 0826-4805 |
| Abstract: | There is much of value for educationists in the work of the great Russian novelist and thinker, Fyodor Dostoevsky. This paper explores a key theme in Dostoevsky's later writings: the notion of a "Golden Age". It compares the ideal depicted in Dostoevsky's story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" with the implied utopia of the classic Daoist work, the "Daode jing". It is argued that these two texts can be helpful in understanding pivotal tensions--between reason and emotion, faith and doubt, happiness and suffering, and action and passivity--in educational development. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 48 |
| Entry Date: | 2016 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1105987 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | There is much of value for educationists in the work of the great Russian novelist and thinker, Fyodor Dostoevsky. This paper explores a key theme in Dostoevsky's later writings: the notion of a "Golden Age". It compares the ideal depicted in Dostoevsky's story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" with the implied utopia of the classic Daoist work, the "Daode jing". It is argued that these two texts can be helpful in understanding pivotal tensions--between reason and emotion, faith and doubt, happiness and suffering, and action and passivity--in educational development. |
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| ISSN: | 0826-4805 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10780-015-9275-1 |
