The Discovery of Chance : : The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen / / Aileen M. Kelly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Kelly, Aileen M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.) :; 19 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Who Was Herzen? --; 2. Russia and the Romantic Revolution --; 3. A Romantic Youth --; 4. A Revolution in Science --; 5. Science and History --; 6. An Education in Method --; 7. Science and Saint-Simonism --; 8. Prison and Exile --; 9. Awakening --; 10. The Discovery of Chance --; 11. From Bacon to Feuerbach: Nature and Time --; 12. Man in the Middle --; 13. A Conservative Revolution --; 14. A Glowing Footprint: Herzen and Proudhon --; 15. Toward Another Shore --; 16. View from the Other Shore --; 17. The Living Truth --; 18. In Defense of Inconsistency --; 19. What Is History? --; 20. The Polish Uprising --; 21. True Nihilism --; 22. The Last Years --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Illustration Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674969438; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674969438
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Aileen M. Kelly.

The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought. For Herzen, history, like Darwinian nature, was an improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance.