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Acknowledgments | |
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List of References and Abbreviations | |
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Introduction | |
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Tolstoy and the Twenty-first Century | |
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Tolstoy today | |
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Theoretical and practical knowledge | |
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Astronomy and Utopia | |
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God substitutes | |
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Contingency and presentness | |
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Decisions in a world of uncertainty | |
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Complexity and impurity | |
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Tolstoy and the realist novel of ideas | |
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The prosaic novel | |
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Fallacies of perception and plot | |
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Prosaics | |
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Dolly and Stiva: Prosaic Good and Evil | |
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Happiness | |
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Two bad lives | |
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Overcoming the bias of the artifact | |
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Retraining perception | |
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The third story | |
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The prosaic hero | |
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Dolly's quandary | |
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Habits | |
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Arriving at a question (Part Six, chapter 16) | |
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Looking is an action | |
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Work | |
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Stiva and the Russian idea of evil | |
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Negligence and negative events | |
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The forgettory | |
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Honesty | |
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Fatalism and blame | |
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He had never clearly thought out the subject | |
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Anna | |
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Introduction to a Contrary Reading | |
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Anna and the Kinds of Love | |
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Murder an infant (a Tolstoyan meditation) | |
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Fatality | |
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Narcissism | |
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Marrying Romeo | |
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Love and work | |
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Why they quarrel | |
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Broderie anglaise | |
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Eroticism and dialogue | |
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The prosaic sublime | |
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Kitty's mistake | |
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Crises | |
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The word love | |
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The second proposal and how it works | |
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Tiny alterations | |
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Anna and the Drama of Looking | |
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Honesty, continued | |
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Fake simplicity | |
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What touches Dolly the most | |
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Relativity | |
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Ears | |
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Narrating from within | |
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Mimicry | |
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Some strategic absences | |
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Aleksey Aleksandrovich plans a conversation | |
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Lying without speaking | |
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Their past marriage | |
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The Pallisers at breakfast | |
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The shortest chapter | |
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Vronsky | |
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Vronsky's attempted suicide | |
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Vronsky's loathing | |
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Vronsky tries to talk | |
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Responsibility at a remove | |
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Races and circuses | |
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What Anna sees and what Tolstoy says | |
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Watching watching watching | |
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A false confession | |
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For the first time | |
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I tried to hate | |
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The only character who saves a life | |
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Divorce and the children | |
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Why Anna refuses a divorce | |
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Anna's Suicide and the Totalism of Meaning | |
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Nothing but love | |
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Dehumanizing Anna | |
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Impurity and inconsistency | |
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The temptation to allegory | |
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Frou-Frou's suicide? | |
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The dynamics of quarrels | |
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Why the epigraph is troubling | |
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Two interpretations of the epigraph, and an unexpected third one | |
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Totalism and isolation | |
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Contrary evidence? | |
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Anna the philosopher | |
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The madness of reason and the choice of fatalism | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Annie | |
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The red bag | |
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The epigraph's fourth meaning | |
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Levin | |
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Why Reforms Succeed or Fail | |
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The significance of Russian history | |
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Toryism and Whiggism | |
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St. Petersburg | |
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Aristocracy | |
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Duty and culture | |
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A strange sort of duty | |
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Levin's book | |
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What Is Agriculture? | |
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The root cause | |
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Friction | |
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The elemental force | |
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Why the elemental force cannot be resisted | |
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Why minds wander | |
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Learning to mow | |
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Reform by template | |
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How reforms can take | |
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When asymmetry works | |
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Discounting history | |
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Untangling the labyrinth of possibilities | |
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Destructive conservatism | |
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Disciplines | |
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War and Peace vs. Anna Karenina | |
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Speed | |
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Levin's Idea, Its Corollaries and Analogues: Self-improvement, Christian Love, Counterfeit Art, and Authentic Thinking | |
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Extending Levin's idea | |
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Three ways not to answer | |
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Kitty and self-improvement | |
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The fake way to avoid being fake | |
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Karenin and Christian love | |
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The sound of listening | |
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The terror of pity | |
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The accompanying message | |
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The stages of comprehension | |
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Wishing her dead | |
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Eavesdropping on vindication | |
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He did not think | |
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Christian love and the elemental force | |
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No escape | |
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Christian love and prosaic goodness | |
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Counterfeit art. What is interesting? | |
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Counterfeit thinking and Sergey Ivanovich's beliefs | |
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How Stiva's opinions change | |
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Svyazhsky and magic words | |
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One's own thought | |
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Meaning and Ethics | |
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The Svyazhsky enigma | |
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An unbeliever's prayer | |
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Two problems | |
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Why there are many problems | |
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The Svyazhsky enigma in its sharpest form | |
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The sole solution to all the riddles of life and death is untrue | |
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Fleming | |
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What is "incontestably necessary" | |
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Levin's casuistry | |
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The moral wisdom of the realist novel | |
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The wisdom of behavior | |
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Wisdom does not come from the peasant | |
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Given without proof | |
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Miracle and narrative | |
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Why vision is not singular | |
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Dostoevsky answers Tolstoy | |
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The first Tolstoyan reply: Moral distance | |
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The second Tolstoyan reply and three maxims about social judgments | |
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The third Tolstoyan reply: Theoretical illustrations vs. novelistic cases | |
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The fourth Tolstoyan reply: Galileo and Dolly | |
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The fifth Tolstoyan reply: Presence | |
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A still more senseless prayer and a new mistaken question | |
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The meaning of meaningfulness | |
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One Hundred Sixty-Three Tolstoyan Conclusions | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |