Fiction's Overcoat : : Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy / / Edith W. Clowes.

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• VerfasserIn: Clowes, Edith W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 10 halftones, 1 line drawing

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'...

Table of Contents

• 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