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Highlights the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, the fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, the concepts of "end of history" and "end of present time" are specifically examined.
About the author
Andrea Oppo (PhD University College Dublin) is associate professor of aesthetics at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia (Italy). He is the author of Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett (2008), Estetiche del negativo. Studi su Dostoevskij, Cechov e Beckett (2009), and numerous articles on Russian religious philosophy and the relationship between philosophy and the arts.
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Highlights the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, the fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, the concepts of "end of history" and "end of present time" are specifically examined.
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“This collection enhances our knowledge and understanding of the apocalyptic vision in Russia and Eastern Europe. It introduces experts on Russia to important figures in Bohemia, Croatia, and Poland, and it offers fresh interpretations of well-known Russian authors.”
