Donna Orwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Orwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Orwin |
| SIGNATURE | ORWIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Heretical Orthodoxy
In Memoriam
A leading scholar of Russian religious history and author of the path-breaking book Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, Robert chaired the history department for many years and was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague.He made important contributions to the history of popular religion, pilgrimage patterns, canonization policy, and the political deployment of sacred symbols.The oldest of three children, Robert was bo…
Desire, Death, and Imitation
The Return to Nature
In this essay, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin examines links between Tolstoy's writings and Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot
The Riddle of Prince Nexljudov
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Soul
There is a neglected but significant Platonic element in Tolstoi's art and psychology. It is worth studying for the light it sheds on the vexing problem of how Tolstoi can reconcile a seemingly determinist psychology based on strict causation with a belief in moral freedom. As Lidiia Ginsburg has pointed out, Tolstoi judges his characters even as he seems to deny them the possibility of moral responsibility.1 Although she regards this contradicti…
Prince Andrei
To refer to Prince Andrei as a rational man seems to flout Tolstoian psychological theory. In a passage from the second (unpublished) part of Youth that Boris Eikhenbaum treats as autobiographical, Tolstoi explains that one of his earliest maxims arose from a refutation of Descartes's "I think, therefore I am."I recall that the basis of my new philosophy was that man consisted of body, feelings, reason and will, but that the essence of the soul w…
The Unity of Tolstoi's Early Works
The Return to Nature
In this essay, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin examines links between Tolstoy's writings and Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Soul
There is a neglected but significant Platonic element in Tolstoi's art and psychology. It is worth studying for the light it sheds on the vexing problem of how Tolstoi can reconcile a seemingly determinist psychology based on strict causation with a belief in moral freedom. As Lidiia Ginsburg has pointed out, Tolstoi judges his characters even as he seems to deny them the possibility of moral responsibility.1 Although she regards this contradicti…
Prince Andrei
To refer to Prince Andrei as a rational man seems to flout Tolstoian psychological theory. In a passage from the second (unpublished) part of Youth that Boris Eikhenbaum treats as autobiographical, Tolstoi explains that one of his earliest maxims arose from a refutation of Descartes's "I think, therefore I am."I recall that the basis of my new philosophy was that man consisted of body, feelings, reason and will, but that the essence of the soul w…
The Unity of Tolstoi's Early Works
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Soul
There is a neglected but significant Platonic element in Tolstoi's art and psychology. It is worth studying for the light it sheds on the vexing problem of how Tolstoi can reconcile a seemingly determinist psychology based on strict causation with a belief in moral freedom. As Lidiia Ginsburg has pointed out, Tolstoi judges his characters even as he seems to deny them the possibility of moral responsibility.1 Although she regards this contradicti…
Prince Andrei
To refer to Prince Andrei as a rational man seems to flout Tolstoian psychological theory. In a passage from the second (unpublished) part of Youth that Boris Eikhenbaum treats as autobiographical, Tolstoi explains that one of his earliest maxims arose from a refutation of Descartes's "I think, therefore I am."I recall that the basis of my new philosophy was that man consisted of body, feelings, reason and will, but that the essence of the soul w…
The Riddle of Prince Nexljudov
The Return to Nature
In this essay, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin examines links between Tolstoy's writings and Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot
Desire, Death, and Imitation
In Memoriam
A leading scholar of Russian religious history and author of the path-breaking book Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, Robert chaired the history department for many years and was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague.He made important contributions to the history of popular religion, pilgrimage patterns, canonization policy, and the political deployment of sacred symbols.The oldest of three children, Robert was bo…
Heretical Orthodoxy
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works)