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Review Of The Gift Of Active Empathy: Scheler, Bakhtin, And Dostoevsky, By Alina Wyman, Slav N. Gratchev May 2017

Review Of The Gift Of Active Empathy: Scheler, Bakhtin, And Dostoevsky, By Alina Wyman, Slav N. Gratchev

Dr. Slav N. Gratchev

There are certain writers that literary scholars of all times will study again and again, and there are certain literary works that are too important to be examined only once. Reading Dostoevsky is always an “excruciatingly visceral experience” not only for us, the readers, but also for scholars like Max Scheler and Mikhail Bakhtin (p. 230). Alina Wyman’s book makes a major contribution to this experience. Wyman’s argument is both original and elegantly simple: for Bakhtin and Scheler the concept of loving empathy is fundamental in both their respective models of being and in the particular structure of their careers. …


Moore, T. 2012. Roman Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Christopher Bungard Mar 2015

Moore, T. 2012. Roman Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bungard's review of Roman Theatre, by Timothy Moore.