Socrates in Russia / edited by Alyssa DeBlasio and Victoria Juharyan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeBlasio, Alyssa, editor.

Juharyan, Victoria, editor.

Series:

Contemporary Russian philosophy (Brill Academic Publishers) ; Volume 5.

Contemporary Russian Philosophy Series ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Russian--History.

Philosophy, Russian.

Philosophy--Soviet Union--History.

Philosophy.

Philosophy--Europe, Eastern--History.

Slavic literature--History and criticism.

Slavic literature.

East European literature--History and criticism.

East European literature.

Socrates--Influence.

Socrates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

This volume explores the influence of the Socratic legacy on philosophy and literature in the Russian, East European, and Soviet contexts, including the work of Skovoroda, Radishchev, Herzen, Dostoevsky, Rozanov, Bely, Narbut, Bulgakov, and many others.

This volume explores the influence of the Socratic legacy in the Russian, East European, and Soviet contexts. For writers, philosophers, and artists, Socrates has served as a potent symbol—of the human capacity for philosophical reflection, as well as the tumultuous (and often dangerous) reality in which Russian-speaking and Soviet intellectuals found themselves. The thirteen chapters include surveys of historical periods and movements (the 18th century, Nietzscheanism, and the “Greek Renaissance” of Russian culture), studies of individual writers and philosophers (Skovoroda, Herzen, Dostoevsky, Rozanov, Bely, Narbut, and many others), and investigations of Socratic subtexts (e.g., in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita and Nosov’s Neznaika series for children). The volume concludes with a “Socratic Texts” section of new translations. The plurality of these topics demonstrates the continued relevance of the Socratic myth not only for Russian-speaking culture, but for the world.

Contents:

6 Anti-Socratic Attitudes in Russian “Nietzscheanism” / Andrea Oppo

7 Gustav Shpet and the Greek Renaissance of Russian Thought / Liisa Bourgeot

8 “Skovoroda’s Way” in the Russian Symbolist and Post-Symbolist Tradition / Vadim Besprozvany

9 Between a Satyr and an Eccentric: Nikolai Bugaev as a Russian Socrates in Andrei Bely’s Works / Daria Solodkaia

10 Conversations with Socrates: The Image of Socrates in Russian and Soviet Philosophical Literature / Olga Lyanda-Geller

11 The Fear of the Word: Socratic Subtext in the Yershalaim Chapters of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita / Ksenia Radchenko

12 Maieutics for Socialist Children: Nikolai Nosov’s Neznaika and the Epistemology of Know-Nothingness / Denis Saltykov

13 Socrates as Symbol: Alexander Herzen, Merab Mamardashvili, and Alexander Pushkin / Alyssa DeBlasio

14 Socrates the Greek Teacher / Leo Tolstoy and Aleksandra Kalmykova

15 Grigory S. Skovoroda / Leo Tolstoy

16 All-Divergence: The Teachings of Iakov Abramov as Interpreted by His Disciples / Mikhail Epstein

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004523326

9004523324

OCLC:

1348487983

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004523326 DOI