Ideas against ideocracy : non-Marxist thought of the late Soviet period (1953-1991) / Mikhail Epstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Mikhail, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Idealism, Russian.

Philosophy, Russian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2020.

Summary:

"This groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost theoreticians of culture and scholars of Russian philosophy gives for the first time a systematic examination of the development of Russian philosophy during the late Soviet period. Countering the traditional view of an intellectual wilderness under the Soviet regime, Mikhail Epstein provides a comprehensive account of Russian thought of the second half of the 20th century that is highly sophisticated without losing clarity. It provides new insights into previously mostly ignored areas such as late Soviet Russian nationalism and Eurasianism, religious thought, cosmism and esoterism, and postmodernism and conceptualism. Epstein shows how Russian philosophy has long been trapped in an intellectual prison of its own making as it sought to create its own utopia. However, he demonstrates that it is time to reappraise Russian thought, now freed from the bonds of Soviet totalitarianism and ideocracy but nevertheless dangerously engaged into new nationalist aspirations and metaphysical radicalism. We are left with not only a new and exciting interpretation of recent Russian intellectual history, but also the opportunity to rethink our philosophical heritage."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Soviet ideocracy: Plato-Marxism

1. The philosophy of the national spirit

2. Philosophy of Christianity

3. Cosmism and religious universalism

4. Postmodernist philosophy

Conceptualism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501350610

1501350617

9781501350603

1501350609

9781501350627

1501350625

OCLC:

1238134117