Note: Introduction. Fiction beyond fiction : Dostoevsky's quest for realism , Part 1. Encounters with science ; Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia's radical youth , Darwin's plots, Malthus's mighty feast, Lamennais's motherless fledglings, and Dostoevsky's lost sheep , "Viper will eat viper" : Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the possibility of brotherhood , Encounters with the prophet : Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and "our Dostoevsky" , Part 2. Engagements with philosophy ; Dostoevsky and the meaning of "the meaning of life" , Dostoevsky and Nietzsche : the hazards of writing oneself into (or out of) belief , Dostoevsky as moral philosopher , "If there's no immortality of the soul, ...everything is lawful" : on the philosophical basis of Ivan Karamozov's idea , Part 3. Questions of aesthetics ; Once again about Dostoevsky's response to Hans Holbein the Younger's Dead body of Christ in the tomb , Prelude to a collaboration : Dostoevsky's aesthetic polemic with Michail Katkov , Dostoevsky's postmodernists and the poetics of incarnation , Part 4. The self and the other ; What is it like to be bats? Paradoxes of The double , Interiority and intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky : the Vasya Shumkov paradigm , Dostoevsky's angel--still an idiot, still beyond the story : the case of Kalganov , The detective as midwife in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment , Metaphors for solitary confinement in Notes from underground and Notes from the house of the dead , Moral emotions in Dostoevsky's "The dream of a ridiculous man" , Like a shepherd to his flock : the messianic pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky--its sources and conceptual echoes , Part 5. Intercultural connections ; Achilles in Crime and punishment , Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac's binding) , Prince Myshkin's night journey : chronotope as a symptom

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Note: "This book is the result of research carried out over a period of ten years. Most of the fieldwork was performed as part of my doctoral program at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem" -- p. 9