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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 | |