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Fiction's Overcoat : Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy /
Fiction's Overcoat serves as a welcome guide to its complexities and nuances." "Historians and cultural critics will find in Clowes's book the story of the increasing refinement and diversification of Russian cultural discourse, philosophers will find an alternative to the Wester...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- pt. 1. The displacement of philosophy (1820s-1860s). The possibility of a Russian philosophy : language and reader in a new philosophical culture (1820s-1830s)
- Competing discourse : philosophy marginalized
- The parting of the ways : Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky, and the seeds of Russian philosophical discourse
- pt. 2. The birth of Russian philosophy (1870s-1920s). Philosophical language between revelation and reason : Solovyov's search for total unity
- Philosophy as tragedy : Shestov and his Russian audience
- Philosophy in the breach : Rozanov's philosophical roguery and the destruction of civil discourse
- Philosophy as epic drama : Berdiaev's philosophy of the creative act
- pt. 3. The survival of Russian philosophical culture (1920s-1950s). Image and concept : Losev's "great synthesis of higher knowledge" and the tragedy of philosophy
- The matter of philosophy : dialectical materialism Platonov's quest after questioning
- "Sheer philosophy" and "vegetative thinking" : Pasternak's suspension and preservation of philosophy.