This is an interview with Distinguished Professor Paul J. Contino on his book Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs and his audience with Pope Francis. It was conducted on June 22, 2023 by Peter Gregory Winsky. Paul’s book can be purchased here, and a Russian language edition of the book will soon be available
This paper was part of the opening roundtable celebrating Mikhail Epstein at the Inaugural Conference of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought which took place at the Northwestern University, April 2023. The roundtable included Alyssa deBlasio, Randall A. Poole, Victoria Juharyan, and the author of this paper,
These are presentation notes for a paper given at the international symposium: Russian Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought in a Time of Catastrophe, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Lisbon, Portugal, March 2023. Written by Gennadii Aliaiev, translated by Dr. Victor V. Chernyshov, and edited for style. To begin, I would like to present the source for my