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Author |
: Aileen Kelly |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 1998-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300070241 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300070248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward Another Shore by : Aileen Kelly
In this thought-provoking book, an internationally acclaimed scholar writes about the passion for ideology among nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian intellectuals and about the development of sophisticated critiques of ideology by a continuing minority of Russian thinkers inspired by libertarian humanism. Aileen Kelly sets the conflict between utopian and anti-utopian traditions in Russian thought within the context of the shift in European thought away from faith in universal systems and "grand narratives" of progress toward an acceptance of the role of chance and contingency in nature and history. In the current age, as we face the dilemma of how to prevent the erosion of faith in absolutes and final solutions from ending in moral nihilism, we have much to learn from the struggles, failures, and insights of Russian thinkers, Kelly says. Her essays--some of them tours de force that have appeared before as well as substantial new studies of Turgenev, Herzen, and the Signposts debate--illuminate the insights of Russian intellectuals into the social and political consequences of ideas of such seminal Western thinkers as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Darwin. Russian Literature and Thought Series
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Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300144156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300144154 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
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In this book, an internationally acclaimed scholar writes about the passion for ideology among nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian intellectuals and the development of sophisticated critiques of ideology by a continuing minority of Russian thinkers who were inspired by liberalism. Aileen Kelly sets the conflict between utopian and antiutopian traditions in Russian thinking within the context of the shift in European thought away from faith in universal systems and "grand narratives" of progress toward an acceptance of the role of chance and contingency in nature and history.
Author |
: Aileen Kelly |
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Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:97047188 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward Another Shore by : Aileen Kelly
Author |
: Sylvie Kandé |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2022-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819580757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819580759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore by : Sylvie Kandé
Sylvie Kandé's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today's tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar, emperor of 14th-Century Mali, sailed West toward the new world, never to return. Kandé's language deftly weaves a dialogue between these two narratives and between the epic traditions of the globe. Dazzling in its scope, the poem swings between epic stylization, griot storytelling, and colloquial banter, capturing an astonishing range of human experience. Kandé makes of the migrant a new hero, a future hero whose destiny has not yet taken shape, whose stories are still waiting to be told in their fullness and grandeur: the neverending quest has only just begun. Country folk who made themselves belated mariners their bodies cadence them to cleave with the oar's tainted tip the purple mounds of the great salt savannah which no furrow marks where no seed takes root (But to say the sea earthly words are little suited) At the point of the dream they were a myriad no less and no more to cross the coral barrier in laughter with its vermilion flowers: there remain but three barks adrift full so full to the point of capsizing
Author |
: David C. Engerman |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2004-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674272415 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674272412 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernization from the Other Shore by : David C. Engerman
From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization, diplomats, journalists, and scholars across the political spectrum rationalized the enormous human cost of this path to progress. In a fascinating examination of this crucial era, David Engerman underscores the key role economic development played in America's understanding of Russia and explores its profound effects on U.S. policy. American intellectuals from George Kennan to Samuel Harper to Calvin Hoover understood Russian events in terms of national character. Many of them used stereotypes of Russian passivity, backwardness, and fatalism to explain the need for--and the costs of--Soviet economic development. These costs included devastating famines that left millions starving while the government still exported grain. This book is a stellar example of the new international history that seamlessly blends cultural and intellectual currents with policymaking and foreign relations. It offers valuable insights into the role of cultural differences and the shaping of economic policy for developing nations even today.
Author |
: Roxanne L. Euben |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2008-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1400827493 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781400827497 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journeys to the Other Shore by : Roxanne L. Euben
The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge.
Author |
: Walter G. Moss |
Publisher |
: Anthem Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2002-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857287632 |
ISBN-13 |
: 085728763X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky by : Walter G. Moss
'Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky' is both history and story, incorporating in its analysis of Alexander II's turbulent reign the lives and ideas of the period's great writers, thinkers and revolutionaries who made this the Golden Age of Russian literature and thought. In his combination of considerable biographical material with the presentation of the main ideas of the era's chief writers and thinkers, Walter G. Moss has written a history that is of interest not only to scholars and students of the period, but also to more general readers.
Author |
: Rose Whyman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2010-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136913648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136913645 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anton Chekhov by : Rose Whyman
Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this major playwright. Rose Whyman provides an insightful assessment of Chekhov's life and work and places his innovative theatrical approach in a modern critical and cultural context.
Author |
: G. M. Hamburg |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 441 |
Release |
: 2010-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139487436 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139487434 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930 by : G. M. Hamburg
The great age of Russian philosophy spans the century between 1830 and 1930 - from the famous Slavophile-Westernizer controversy of the 1830s and 1840s, through the 'Silver Age' of Russian culture at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the formation of a Russian 'philosophical emigration' in the wake of the Russian Revolution. This volume is a major history and interpretation of Russian philosophy in this period. Eighteen chapters (plus a substantial introduction and afterword) discuss Russian philosophy's main figures, schools and controversies, while simultaneously pursuing a common central theme: the development of a distinctive Russian tradition of philosophical humanism focused on the defence of human dignity. As this volume shows, the century-long debate over the meaning and grounds of human dignity, freedom and the just society involved thinkers of all backgrounds and positions, transcending easy classification as 'religious' or 'secular'. The debate still resonates strongly today.
Author |
: A. Ajens |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2011-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230370678 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230370675 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetry After the Invention of América by : A. Ajens
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions