The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought

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 thecontext 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.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the Russian intellectual tradition Discusses a range of figures, including such philosophers as Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin, Vladimir Solovyov, Vladimir Lenin, Ivan Ilyin, Alexei Losev, and Merab Mamardhashvili; authors, such as Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Osip Mandelshtam, and Vladimir Nabokov; and literary critics and theorists, such as Vissarion Belinsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Yuri Lotman Presents new material and critical discussion of the philosophical and cultural landscape of the Soviet period as well as preliminary reflections on the philosophical and intellectual development in post-Soviet Russia

Auteur
Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA, and editor-in-chief of the journals Studies in East European Thought and Russian Studies in Philosophy.

Michael N. Forster is Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-director of the International Center for Philosophy, North Rhine Westphalia at Bonn University, Germany.

Lina Steiner is a Research Associate at the International Center for Philosophy, North Rhine Westphalia and a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Literature at Bonn University, Germany.

Contenu

1. Introduction: On Russian Thought and Intellectual Tradition.- 2. Politics and Enlightenment in Russia.- 3. Russian Religious Philosophy: The Nature of the Phenomenon, Its Path, and Its Afterlife.- 4. Russian Political Philosophy: Between Autocracy and Revolution.- 5. Between Aristocratism and Artistry: Two Centuries of the Revolutionary Paradigm in Russia.- 6. Kant and Kantianism in Russia: a Historical Overview.- 7. Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Russia.- 8. Vladimir Solovyov: Philosophy as Systemic Unity.- 9. Natural Sciences and the Radical Intelligentsia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.- 10. Lev Shestov's Philosophy of Freedom.- 11. Nikolai Berdyaev's Philosophy of Creativity as a Revolt against the Modern Worldview.- 12. Lenin and His Controversy over Philosophy: On the Philosophical Significance of Materialism and Empiriocriticism.- 13. Russian Marxism and its Philosophy: From Theory to Ideology.- 14. Between East and West:Russian Identity in the Émigré Writings of Ilya Fondaminsky and Semyon Portugeis.- 15. Ivan A. Ilyin: Russia's Non-Hegelian Hegelian.- 16. Gustav Shpet's Path Through Phenomenology to Philosophy of Language.- 17. Evald Ilyenkov: Philosophy as the Science of Thought.- 18. The Men of the Sixties: Philosophy as a Social Phenomenon.- 19. The Activity Approach in Late Soviet Philosophy.- 20. A Return to Tradition: The Epistemological Style in Russia's Post-Soviet Philosophy.- 21. The Russian Novel as a Medium of Moral Reflection in The Long Nineteenth Century.- 22. Nikolai Gogol, Symbolic Geography, and the Invention of the Russian Provinces.- 23. Belinsky and the Sociality of Reason.- 24. The Vocations of Nikolai Grot and the Tasks of Russian Philosophy .- 25. Chernyshevsky and Dostoevsky: Together in Opposition.- 26. Tolstoy's Philosophy of Life.- 27. Teaching of Life: Tolstoy's Moral-Philosophical Aesthetics.- 28. Osip Mandelstam's Poetic Practice and Theory and Pavel Florensky's Philosophical Contexts.- 29. Future in the Past: Mikhail Bakhtin's Thought between Heritage and Reception.- 30. Across Time and Language: Bakhtin, Translation, World Literature.- 31. Alexei F. Losev's Mythology of Music as a Development of the Hermeneutics and Sociology of Music.- 32. The Young Marx and the Tribulations of Soviet Marxist-Leninist Aesthetics.- 33. Mikhail Sholokhov, Andrei Platonov, and Varlam Shalamov: The Road to Hell in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature.- 34. Yuri Lotman and the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics: Contemporary Epistemic and Social Contexts.- 35. Art as an Instrument of Philosophy.- 36. Russian Thought and Russian Thinkers.