History of Russian Thought

Klappentext This volume provides a comprehensive view of Russian intellectual thinkers, with fourteen essays by an international team of experts. Zusammenfassung Providing a comprehensive view of Russian intellectual history! this volume focuses on intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment! nationalism! nihilism and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East! the common people! and attitudes to capitalism and natural science)! rather than on individual thinkers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Context: 1. Introduction William Leatherbarrow and Derek Offord; 2. The political and social order David Saunders; 3. Russian intelligentsias Gary Hamburg; Part II. Intellectual Currents: 4. Russia's eighteenth-century Enlightenment Gareth Jones; 5. Conservatism in the age of Alexander I and Nicholas I William Leatherbarrow; 6. Nihilism Richard Peace; 7. Tradition and counter-tradition: the radical intelligentsia and classical Russian literature Gary Saul Morson; 8. Religious renaissance in the Silver Age Ruth Coates; Part III. Themes and Constructs: 9. The West Vera Tolz; 10. The East David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye; 11. The people Derek Offord; 12. The intelligentsia and capitalism Wayne Dowler; 13. Natural science Charles Ellis; Part IV. The Afterlife of Classical Thought: 14. Continuities in the Soviet period Galin Tihanov; 15. Dialectical materialism and Soviet science in the 1920s and 1930s Daniel Todes and Nikolai Krementsov; 16. Afterword James Scanlan; Biographical appendix; Selected bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: William Leatherbarrow, William (University of Sheffield) O Leatherbarrow, William Offord Leatherbarrow
• Assisted by: William Leatherbarrow (Editor), William (University of Sheffield) Leatherbarrow (Editor), Leatherbarrow William (Editor), Derek Offord (Editor), Derek (University of Bristol) Offord (Editor), Offord Derek (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2013
• EAN: 9781107412521
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41252-1
• No. of pages: 466
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet