Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Metaphysics of Inertia -- The Force of Inertia: Dostoevsky's Confessional Heroes and the "Tragedy of the Underground" -- The Resurrection from Inertia in Crime And Punishment -- The Verdict of Death in The Idiot -- The Dead Machine of European Civilization: Inertia in The Devils -- Death by Ice: The Poetics of Entropy in The Adolescent -- The Dimensions of Providence in The Brothers Karamazov -- Afterword: "Except a Corn of Wheat."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-305) and index
