Fiction's overcoat : Russian literary culture and the question of philosophy

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Fiction's overcoat : Russian literary culture and the question of philosophy

Title remainder

Russian literary culture and the question of philosophy

Statement of responsibility

Edith W. Clowes

Creator

• Clowes, Edith W

Subject

• Electronic books
• Filosofie
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union
• Philosophie
• Philosophy, Russian
• 1800-1999
• Philosophy, Russian -- 20th century
• Russland
• Russland
• Philosophy, Russian -- 19th century

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

• "In Fiction's Overcoat, Edith W. 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."--Jacket

Cataloging source

JSTOR

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography