Nikolai Strakhov / Linda Gerstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerstein, Linda, author.

Series:

Russian Research Center studies ; 65.

Russian Research Center Studies ; 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strakhov, N. (Nikolaĭ), 1828-1896.

Strakhov, N.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers.

HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.

Strakhov, N. (Nikolai), 1828-1896.

Local Subjects:

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers.

HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.

Strakhov, N. (Nikolai), 1828-1896.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations, portrait.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

That Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov was always classified by his contemporaries as a "conservative" gives his life a special significance in Russian intellectual history. The myth of radical historiography has made him a victim of purposeful historical forgetfulness. In this respect he shares the fate of men like Aksakov, Danilevsky, and Katkov, indeed, of most Russian conservatives. Yet it is misleading to place him in such politically conservative company. Strakhov was born in 1828, the same year as his great friend Leo Tolstoy and his great opponent Nikolai Chernyshevsky. His adult life spans the entire second half of the century. As a philosopher, literary critic, and journalist, he was involved in most of the major intellectual controversies of his time. He was personally close to and a major influence on the giants of the period: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Vladimir Solovev. One of the most penetrating thinkers of nineteenth-century Russia, he engaged in serious and often bitter debate with the leading intellectuals of Russian radicalism: Chernyshevsky, Pisarev, Mikhailovsky. In this first full-length intellectual biography in any language of Strakhov, Linda Gerstein provides a guide both to the individual and to the amazingly complex picture of Russian intellectual life in the nineteenth century. Strakhov's concerns, she shows, were the major concerns of his era: positivism, nihilism, materialism, the woman question, Darwinism. In all these matters he displayed a consistent intelligence and independence, unusual in that time of intellectual faddishness, that make him a rewarding figure to study.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

[I] The Education of a Seminarist

[II] The World of St. Petersburg Journalism

[III] Idealism and Literary Criticism

[IV] The Struggle with the West

[V] The Defense of Science

[VI] The Hermit

[VII] The Final Triumph

Bibliography

Index

Russian Research Center Studies

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-28166-7

OCLC:

1024014099