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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Format: eBook
Language: English
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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
- 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.