The discovery of chance : the life and thought of Alexander Herzen /

"Alexander Herzen--philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century--was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece "My Past and Thoughts" and as the father of Ru...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelly, Aileen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Herzen, Aleksandr, > 1812-1870.
Herzen, Aleksandr, > 1812-1870
1801-1917
Intellectuals > Russia > Biography.
Intellectuels > Russie > Biographies.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Intellectual life
Intellectuals
Russia > Intellectual life > 1801-1917.
Russie > Vie intellectuelle > 1801-1917.
Russia
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Who was Herzen?
  • Russia and the romantic revolution
  • A romantic youth
  • A revolution in science
  • Science and history
  • An education in method
  • Science and Saint-Simonism
  • Prison and exile
  • Awakening
  • The discovery of chance
  • Nature and time
  • Man in the middle
  • A conservative revolution
  • Herzen and Proudhon
  • Toward another shore
  • View from the other shore
  • The living truth
  • In defence of inconsistency
  • What is history?
  • The Polish rising
  • True nihilism
  • Last years.

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