Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An Anthology - Paperback

by Leo Tolstoy (Author), Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Editor), Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Translator)

This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive, intellectually powerful, challenging, and absorbing thinker.

Author Biography

Inessa Medzhibovskaya holds tenure in Liberal and Literary Studies at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. Her eight published books include the first definitive biography of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical evolution, several archival studies of his art and thought, and a book-length entry on Tolstoy with Oxford Bibliographies. A history of Tolstoy's afterlife is upcoming with Princeton.