Fiction's Overcoat : : Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy / / Edith W. Clowes.
If Dostoevsky claimed that all Russian writers of his day "came out from Gogol's 'Overcoat,'" then Edith W. Clowes boldly expands his dramatic image to describe the emergence of Russian philosophy out from under the "overcoat" of Russian literature. In Fiction'...
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Clowes, Edith W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fiction's Overcoat : Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy / Edith W. Clowes. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2004 1 online resource (320 p.) : 10 halftones, 1 line drawing text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One. THE DISPLACEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY (1820s-1860s) -- 1. The Possibility of a Russian Philosophy: Language and Reader in a New Philosophical Culture (1820s-1830s) -- 2. Competing Discourses: Philosophy Marginalized -- 3. The Parting of the Ways: Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky, and the Seeds of Russian Philosophical Discourse -- Part Two. THE BIRTH OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY (1870s-1920s) -- 4. Philosophical Language between Revelation and Reason: Solovyov's Search for Total Unity -- 5. Philosophy as Tragedy: Shestov and His Russian Audience -- 6. Philosophy in the Breach: Rozanov's Philosophical Roguery and the Destruction of Civil Discourse -- 7. Philosophy as Epic Drama: Berdiaev's Philosophy of the Creative Act -- Part Three. THE SURVIVAL OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE ( 1920s-1950s) -- 8. Image and Concept: Losev's "Great Synthesis of Higher Knowledge" and the Tragedy of Philosophy -- 9. The Matter of Philosophy: Dialectical Materialism and Platonov's Quest after Questioning -- 10. "Sheer Philosophy" and "Vegetative Thinking": Pasternak's Suspension and Preservation of Philosophy -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Generations and Networks of Russian Philosophy -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star If Dostoevsky claimed that all Russian writers of his day "came out from Gogol's 'Overcoat,'" then Edith W. Clowes boldly expands his dramatic image to describe the emergence of Russian philosophy out from under the "overcoat" of Russian literature. In Fiction's Overcoat, Clowes responds to the view, commonly held by Western European and North American thinkers, that Russian culture has no philosophical tradition. If that is true, she asks, why do readers everywhere turn to the classics of Russian literature, at least in part because Russian writers so famously engage universal questions, because they are so "philosophical"? Her answer to this question is a lively and comprehensive volume that details the origins, submergence, and re-emergence of a rich and vital Russian philosophical tradition.During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Russian philosophy emerged in conversation with narrative fiction, radical journalism, and speculative theology, developing a distinct cultural discourse with its own claim to authority and truth. Leading Russian thinkers—Berdiaev, Losev, Rozanov, Shestov, and Solovyov—made philosophy the primary forum in which Russians debated metaphysical, aesthetic, and ethical questions as well as issues of individual and national identity. That debate was tragically truncated by the events of 1917 and the rise of the Soviet empire. Today, after seventy years of enforced silence, this particularly Russian philosophical culture has resurfaced. Fiction's Overcoat serves as a welcome guide to its complexities and nuances.Historians and cultural critics will find in Clowes's book the story of the increasing refinement and diversification of Russian cultural discourse, philosophers will find an alternative to the Western philosophical tradition, and students of literature will enjoy the opportunity to rethink the great Russian novelists—particularly Dostoevsky, Pasternak, and Platonov—as important voices in the process of shaping and sustaining a new philosophy and ensuring its survival into our own age. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Philosophy, Russian 19th century. Philosophy, Russian 20th century. History. Literary Studies. Soviet & East European History. LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727023 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501727023 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501727023/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One. THE DISPLACEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY (1820s-1860s) -- 1. The Possibility of a Russian Philosophy: Language and Reader in a New Philosophical Culture (1820s-1830s) -- 2. Competing Discourses: Philosophy Marginalized -- 3. The Parting of the Ways: Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky, and the Seeds of Russian Philosophical Discourse -- Part Two. THE BIRTH OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY (1870s-1920s) -- 4. Philosophical Language between Revelation and Reason: Solovyov's Search for Total Unity -- 5. Philosophy as Tragedy: Shestov and His Russian Audience -- 6. Philosophy in the Breach: Rozanov's Philosophical Roguery and the Destruction of Civil Discourse -- 7. Philosophy as Epic Drama: Berdiaev's Philosophy of the Creative Act -- Part Three. THE SURVIVAL OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE ( 1920s-1950s) -- 8. Image and Concept: Losev's "Great Synthesis of Higher Knowledge" and the Tragedy of Philosophy -- 9. The Matter of Philosophy: Dialectical Materialism and Platonov's Quest after Questioning -- 10. "Sheer Philosophy" and "Vegetative Thinking": Pasternak's Suspension and Preservation of Philosophy -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Generations and Networks of Russian Philosophy -- Index |
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