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The Significance of Limits. The Parallels between Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and Shelley's "Frankenstein"

Name: The Significance of Limits. The Parallels between Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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Author: Céline Sun
ISBN: 978-3-668-83254-1

Term Paper, 2018

12 Pages, Grade: 1,7

Céline Sun (Author)

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Content

I. Introduction

II. Limits for the Profane Mind
1. Empathy and Morality
2. Sexuality and Mortality

III. Overcoming Limits: Self-Absolutizing
1. Reason and Ethics
2. Science and Spirit

IV. Limits in a Secular World
1. Materiality and Immorality
2. Self-Containment and Death

V. Overcoming Limits: Transformation through the Other
3. Image and Language
4. Dialogue and Grace

VI. Conclusion: Transcendence in-and-beyond the Embodied

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Title: The Significance of Limits. The Parallels between Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and Shelley's "Frankenstein"
College: University of Cambridge (Faculty of Divinity)
Course: Religious Themes in Literature
Grade: 1,7
Author: Céline Sun (Author)
Year: 2018
Pages: 12
Catalog Number: V449020
ISBN (eBook): 9783668832534
ISBN (Book): 9783668832541
Language: English
Keywords: Transzendenz, Dostojewski, Schuld und Sühne, Verbrechen und Strafe, Shelley, Frankenstein

Quote paper: Céline Sun (Author), 2018, The Significance of Limits. The Parallels between Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and Shelley's "Frankenstein", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/449020

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