Russian Thought After Communism: The Recovery of a Philosophical Heritage

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James Patrick Scanlan
M.E. Sharpe, 1994 - History - 238 pages
An examination of Russia's philosophical heritage. It extends from the Slavophiles to the philosophers of the Silver Age, from emigre religious thinkers to Losev and Bakhtin and assesses the meaning for Russian culture as a whole.
 

Contents

The Return of Russian Philosophy
11
Interpretations and Uses of Slavophilism
31
Ideas of Resurrection
62
Russian Philosophers of the Silver Age
81
The Philosophy of Freedom of Nikolai Berdiaev
104
Russian Émigré Thought Reclaimed
147
Lev Shestov and the Revival of Religious Thought in Russia
153
The Complex Legacy of Ivan Ilin
165
Finding Philosophy Under Soviet Rule
187
Aleksei Losev and the Phenomenology of Music
197
The Making of M M Bakhtin as Philosopher
206
Index
227
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