Toward Another Shore / Margaret R. Higonnet; Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higonnet, Margaret R., Author.

Contributor:

Jenson, Jane, Editor.

Michel, Sonya, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--Russia.

Intellectuals.

Intellectuals--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this thought-provoking book, an internationally acclaimed scholar writes about the passion for ideology among nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian intellectuals and about the development of sophisticated critiques of ideology by a continuing minority of Russian thinkers inspired by libertarian humanism. Aileen Kelly sets the conflict between utopian and anti-utopian traditions in Russian thought within the context of the shift in European thought away from faith in universal systems and "grand narratives" of progress toward an acceptance of the role of chance and contingency in nature and history.In the current age, as we face the dilemma of how to prevent the erosion of faith in absolutes and final solutions from ending in moral nihilism, we have much to learn from the struggles, failures, and insights of Russian thinkers, Kelly says. Her essays-some of them tours de force that have appeared before as well as substantial new studies of Turgenev, Herzen, and the Signposts debate-illuminate the insights of Russian intellectuals into the social and political consequences of ideas of such seminal Western thinkers as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Darwin.Russian Literature and Thought Series

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Methods and Approaches

Chapter Two. Leonard Schapiro's Russia

Chapter Three. Carnival of the Intellectuals: 1855

Chapter Four. Dostoevsky and the Divided Conscience

Chapter Five. Tolstoy in Doubt

Chapter Six. The Nihilism of Ivan Turgenev

Chapter Seven. Liberal Dilemmas and Populist Solutions

Chapter Eight. The Intelligentsia and Self-Censorship

Chapter Nine. Which Signposts?

Chapter Ten. Which Signposts?

Chapter Eleven. The Rational Reality of Boris Chicherin

Chapter Twelve. Bakunin and the Charm of the Millennium

Chapter Thirteen. A Bolshevik Philosophy?

Chapter Fourteen. Brave New Worlds

Chapter Fifteen. Irony and Utopia in Herzen and Dostoevsky

Chapter Sixteen. Herzen versus Schopenhauer

Chapter Seventeen. The Divine Inventor, Chance

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ISBN:

9780300144154

0300144156

OCLC:

1024031122