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Exile : the sense of alienation in modern Russian letters /
The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modem life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community -- the experience of exile. No one in the modem world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned...
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prefatory Remarks; Part One: The Word in Collision; 1 The Loss of the Word in the Superfluous Man; Monological Discourse; Narcissistic Discourse; Discourse Spoken Rather than Speaking; Discourse Void of Summons and Response; 2 The Collision of Discourse: Dostoevsky's Winter Note; The Alien Other; The Other as Brother; The European Exile; Part Two: The Breach between Life and Word; 3 Monological Death and Dialogical Life: The Case of Ivan Il'ich; The Monological Death of Ivan ll'ich; Wrestling with the Angel; Dialogical Life and Living.
- 4 The Theological Aspects of Exile: Tolstoy's ResurrectionThe Attack on the Church; Toward a Lived Theology; The Dynamic of Redemption; Part Three: The Rupture of Religious Discourse; 5 Pavel Florensky's Antitheology; Human and Divine Relation; From Identity to Antinomy; Love as a Manifestation of Wisdom; 6 Shestov's Return from Athens to Jerusalem; Reason over against Faith; Necessity over against Freedom; Knowledge over against Life; Part Four: The Exile Within; 7 From Politics to Metaphysics: Solzhenitsyn's From under the Rubble; The Moral Path to Freedom; Responsibility.
- Religious Repentance and the Return from Exile8 Fragments of a Broken Silence: Andrei Sinyavsky's A Voice from the Chorus; Calling Home: Exile from the Family; Calling to the Other: Exile from the Face; Calling Forth the Soul: Art Opposed to Exile; Part Five: The Word in Exile; 9 Exile in the Diaspora: The Poetry of Joseph Brodsky; The Sacramental Sign; The Messenger of Silence; The Affirmation of the Elsewhere; 10 Exile in the Promised Land: The Poetry of Mikhail Gendelev; Homelessness in the Homeland; Voices of Silence, Visions of Darkness; The Divorce of Word and Meaning.
- Concluding RemarksWorks Cited; Index.