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Zusatztext Mikhail Epstein’s second volume of his unprecedented survey of late Soviet philosophy daringly connects the works by philosophers, political thinkers and dissidents, writers, and visual artists. The work covers three major areas: the philosophy of national spirit, religious philosophy, and postmodernist thought. Philosophical ideas expressed through the poetics of literary or visual art are as important for Epstein as traditional forms of philosophic discourse. Despite Epstein’s significant impact on all three areas of philosophy discussed in the book, the reader will not find in it a special chapter dedicated to his own philosophy. Nevertheless, this book reads as Mikhail Epstein’s ultimate contribution – in the form of critique – to these fields of philosophy, Russian as well as global. Informationen zum Autor Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA. From 2012–2015 he was Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University, UK. His research interests include new directions in the humanities and methods of intellectual creativity, contemporary philosophy, postmodernism, Russian literature, and philosophy and religion of the 20th–21st centuries. He is the author of 40 books, including The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto (Bloomsbury, 2012), and more than 800 articles and essays. His work has been translated into 26 languages. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures (awarded by the Modern Languages Association) This groundbreaking work by one of the world’s foremost theoreticians of culture and scholars of Russian philosophy gives for the first time a systematic examination of the development of Russian philosophy during the late Soviet period.Countering the traditional view of an intellectual wilderness under the Soviet regime, Mikhail Epstein provides a comprehensive account of Russian thought of the second half of the 20th century that is highly sophisticated without losing clarity. It provides new insights into previously mostly ignored areas such as late-Soviet Russian nationalism and Eurasianism, religious thought, cosmism and esoterism, and postmodernism and conceptualism.Epstein shows how Russian philosophy has long been trapped in an intellectual prison of its own making as it sought to create its own utopia. However, he demonstrates that it is time to reappraise Russian thought, now freed from the bonds of Soviet totalitarianism and ideocracy but nevertheless dangerously engaged into new nationalist aspirations and metaphysical radicalism. We are left with not only a new and exciting interpretation of recent Russian intellectual history, but also the opportunity to rethink our own philosophical heritage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Philosophy, the State, and Plato-Marxism Part I. The Philosophy of National Spirit. Conservatism, Eurasianism, and Traditionalism 1. The Search for National Identity. Traditions and New Challenges2. The Neo-Slavophile Revival in Aesthetics and Criticism. Petr Palievsky and Vadim Kozhinov3. Other Neo-Slavophiles and Nationalists of the 1960s–70s4. Nation As Personality. The Moral Conservatism of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn5. From Anti-Socialism to Anti-Semitism. Igor Shafarevich6. The Philosophy of Ethnicity. Neo-Eurasianism, Lev Gumilev7. Radical Traditionalism and Neofascism. Aleksandr Dugin Part II. Religious Thought. Orthodox Christianity 1. Major Expatriate Theologians2. Science and Theology. Archbishop Luka (Valentin Voino-Iasenetsky) 3. The Christian Intuitivism of Boris Pasternak4. Christian Socialism. Anatolii Krasnov-Levitin5. Atheism as the Forerunner of Spiritual Rebirth 6. The Dialogue between Believers and Atheists. ...
