A Documentary History of Russian Thought
Author: William J. Leatherbarrow
Publisher: Ardis Publishers
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William J. Leatherbarrow
Publisher: Ardis Publishers
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Leatherbarrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1139487191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes to capitalism and natural science) in Russian intellectual history. Concentrating on the Golden Age of Russian thought in the mid-nineteenth century, the contributors also look back to its eighteenth-century origins in the flowering of culture following the reign of Peter the Great, and forward to the continuing vitality of Russia's classical intellectual tradition in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. With brief biographical details of over fifty key thinkers and an extensive bibliography, this book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of Russian intellectual history.
Author: William J. Leatherbarrow
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrzej Walicki
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9781503621244
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Patrick Scanlan
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781563243882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of Russia's philosophical heritage. It extends from the Slavophiles to the philosophers of the Silver Age, from emigre religious thinkers to Losev and Bakhtin and assesses the meaning for Russian culture as a whole.
Author: Andrzej Walicki
Publisher: Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631636688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book deals with the history of Russian philosophy and ideas from the Enlightenment to the religious-philosophical renaissance of the first decade of the 20th century. It provides readers with an exhaustive account of relationships between various Russian thinkers and an examination of how those thinkers relate to a number of figures and trends.
Author: Marina F. Bykova
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2021-04-05
Total Pages: 821
ISBN-13: 9783030629816
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is a comprehensive Handbook of Russian thought that provides an in-depth survey of major figures, currents, and developments in Russian intellectual history, spanning the period from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. Written by a group of distinguished scholars as well as some younger ones from Russia, Europe, the United States, and Canada, this Handbook reconstructs a vibrant picture of the intellectual and cultural life in Russia and the Soviet Union during the most buoyant period in the country's history. Contrary to the widespread view of Russian modernity as a product of intellectual borrowing and imitation, the essays collected in this volume reveal the creative spirit of Russian thought, which produced a range of original philosophical and social ideas, as well as great literature, art, and criticism. While rejecting reductive interpretations, the Handbook employs a unifying approach to its subject matter, presenting Russian thought in the context of the country's changing historical landscape. This Handbook will open up a new intellectual world to many readers and provide a secure base for its further exploration.
Author: Georgiĭ Valentinovich Plekhanov
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Derek Offord
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-04-07
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1350283967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one but themselves. It explores Rand's conception of American identity, which exalted individualism and capitalism, and her solution for saving the modern American nation, which she believed was losing the spirit of its 18th- and 19th-century founders and frontiersmen, having been degraded morally and economically by the rampant socialism of the mid-20th-century world. Derek Offord crucially goes on to analyse how Rand's writings functioned as a vehicle in which she, a Russian-Jewish writer born in St Petersburg in 1905, engaged with ideas that had long animated the Russian intelligentsia. Her conception of human nature and of a utopian community capable of satisfying its needs; her reversal of conventional valuations of self-sacrifice and selfishness; her division of humans into an extraordinary minority and the ordinary mass; her comparison of competing civilizations – in all these areas, Offord argues that Rand drew on Russian debates and transposed them to a different context. Even the type of novel she writes, the novel of ideas, is informed by the polemical methods and habits of the Russian intelligentsia. The book concludes that her search for a brave new world continues to have topicality in the 21st century, with its populist critiques of liberal democracies and acrimonious debates about countries' moral, social, and economic priorities and their identities, inequalities, and social tensions.
Author: Maureen Perrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-17
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 9780521815291
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A definitive new history of Russia from early Rus' to the collapse of the Soviet Union