Against the current : selections from the novels, essays, notes, and letters of Konstantin Leontiev
Selections from the Novels, Essays, Notes, and Letters of Konstantin Leontiev
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English Pages [326] Year 1969
Table of contents :
Title
Contents
The Other Russian: Konstantin Leontiev
EXPERIENCE
FATHER
MOTHER
NARCISSUS I
NARCISSUS II
CHRIST
A PRIEST'S DAUGHTER, POOR GIRL
THE MEDICAL STUDENT
TURGENEV
REJECTING A BRIDE
ARMY DOCTOR IN THE CRIMEA
THE SURRENDER OF KERCH IN 1855
CONSUL IN ADRIANOPLE
CONSUL IN TULCEA (RUMANIA)
CONSUL IN YANINA
MIRACLE IN SALONIKA
ON MOUNT ATHOS
THE ELDERS OF MOUNT ATHOS
ON THE ELDERS OF THE OPTINA MONASTERY
YOUNG FRIENDS
LEONTIEV’S SERVANTS
THE ELDER AMBROSIUS
THE DEATH OF FATHER AMBROSIUS
PHILOSOPHY
A CONVERSATION WITH A NIHILIST ABOUT AESTHETICS
THE RAPACIOUS AESTHETE
AESTHETICS I
AESTHETICS II
THE TRIUNE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT
THE AVERAGE EUROPEAN
PROUDHON AND HERZEN
THRACE
GREEKS, BULGARIANS, AND RUSSIANS
RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIANS
BYZANTIUM AND RUSSIA
FUNDAMENTAL THESES
THE PATHS OF RUSSIA
FREEZING RUSSIA
THE WARMING UP OF RUSSIA
ANTICHRIST IN RUSSIA
CATHOLICISM
THE MIND
THE REJECTION OF AESTHETICS
LITERARY CRITICISM
A LETTER TO THE POET FET
ON RUSSIAN REALISM
DOSTOYEVSKY
TOLSTOY
if Pushkin had written War and Peace
Bibliography
Chronology
Index
