Russian Intelligentsia in Search of an Identity : Between Dostoevsky's Oppositions and Tolstoy's Holism /

Russian Intelligentsia in Search of an Identity considers the problem of the Russian intelligentsia's self-identification in its historic-philosophical and historic-cultural aspects. The monograph traces the rise of the intelligentsia, from the 18th century to the present day, problematizing it...

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Main Author: Klimova, Svetlana (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2021.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 355.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419094.

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Call Number: D16.8

Table of Contents:
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgments x
  • Notes
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Rise of the Russian Intelligentsia
  • 1.1 The Historic Origins of Binary Consciousness
  • 1.2 The Eighteenth Century and the Birth of Humanism
  • 1.3 Pyotr Chaadayev and the Nineteenth Century: from Dialogues with Power to Public Discussion and Binary Consciousness
  • 1.4 The Third Path of Russian Intellectualism
  • 1.5 Russian Intelligentsia: history and Fate
  • 1.6 The 'Holiness' of the Russian Intelligent
  • 2 Fyodor Dostoevsky's Ideology and Mythmaking
  • 2.1 Dostoevsky's Authorial Myth
  • 2.2 Binary Code in Dostoevsky's Worldview
  • 2.3 The National Question in the Mirrors of Religion and Existential Philosophy
  • 3 The Rise of the Philosophy of Life: Between Nikolay Strakhov and Lev Tolstoy
  • 3.1 Nikolay Strakhov's Mediation between Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
  • 3.2 The Philosophical Dialogue of Tolstoy and Strakhov
  • 3.3 Tolstoy the Philosopher
  • 4 Tolstoy's Social-Religious Teaching: Presentiments of the Twentieth Century
  • 4.1 Tolstoy through the Prism of the Intelligentsia
  • 4.2 Evil in Politics and Philosophy: 'Who Is To Blame?'
  • 4.3 The Amelioration of Evil: 'What Are We To Do?'
  • 4.4 Twentieth-Century Political Philosophy: Tolstoy, Weber, Arendt
  • 4.5 The National Question in the Mirror of Tolstoy's Art
  • Postscript.