Motherland: a philosophical history of Russia 9781468305630, 1468305638
Introduces key Russian thinkers prior to the 1917 revolution, offering insight into regional philosophical belief system
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English Year 2007;2012
Table of contents :
pt. I: The making of the intelligentsia. The men of the 1820
The beautiful souls
The new men
The populists
The impact of Marx
The silver age --
pt. II: The making of Russian philosophy. The moral map
Rejecting the view from Descartes
The contest of good and evil --
pt. III: Against idealism : cure or undoing? Lenin and the view from no one --
pt. IV: The long tradition. How the long tradition survived
On the edge of reason --
A comparative chronology of Russian and Western philosophers.
