Facets of Russian irrationalism between art and life : mystery inside enigma / edited by Olga Tabachnikova.

Russia is an enigmatic, mysterious country, situated between East and West not only spatially, but also mentally. Or so it is traditionally perceived in Western Europe and the Anglophone world at large. One of the distinctive features of Russian culture is its irrationalism, which revealed itself di...

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Other Authors: Tabachnikova, Olga, 1967- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2016.
Series:Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; volume 61.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rationalising Russian irrationalism / Olga Tabachnikova
  • On the Place of Irrationalism in the Russian History of Ideas. Irrationalism in Ancient Russia / Tatiana Chumakova
  • The Traditions of Rationalism in Russian Culture of the Pre-Soviet Period / Barbara Olaszek
  • Ethos Versus Pathos. The Ontologisation of Knowledge in Russian Philosophy / Oliver Smith
  • Irrationalism and Antisemitism in Late-Tsarist Literature / Christopher John Tooke
  • Russian Semiotics of Behaviour, or can a Russian Person be Regarded as 'Homo Economicus'? / Natalia Vinokurova
  • Fides et ratio: Catholicism, Rationalism and Mysticism in Russian Literary culture of the mid-nineteenth century / Elizabeth Harrison
  • Russian Classics and Their Influence in Space and Time. The Irrational Basis of Gogol's Mythopoetics / Arkadii Goldenberg
  • On the Philosophical Sources and Nature of Dostnevskii's Anti-Rationalism / Sergei Kibal'nik
  • Shifting French Perspectives on Dostnevskian Anti-Rationalism / Alexander McCabe
  • The Concept of Love and Beauty in the Works of Turgenev / Margarita Odesskaia
  • Patterns of European Irrationalism, from Source to Estuary: Johann Georg Hamann, Lev Shestnv and Anton Chekhov-on Both Sides of Reason / Olga Tabachnikova
  • Lev Tolstoi and Vasilii Rozanov: Two fundamental(ist) Types of Russian Irrationalism / Rainer Grilbel
  • The silver age. from neo-kantian theory of cognition 1d christian intellectual
  • Mysticism: logical voluntarism in Vladimir Solov'ev and Andrei Belyi / Henrieke Stahl
  • Aleksei Remizov's Pliashushchii demon- tanets i slovo: Cultural Memory, Dreams and Demons / Marilyn Schwinn Smith
  • Irrational Elements in Ivan Bunin's Short Story 'The Grammar of Love' / Ildiko Maria Racz
  • Russian Culture into the 20th Century and Beyond. Viewing Askance: Irrationalist Aspects in Russian Art from Fedotov to Malevich and into the Beyond / Jeremy Howard
  • Symbols, metaphors and irrationalities in twentieth-century music / Alexander Ivashkin
  • The irrational in Russian cinema: a short course / Oleg Kovalov
  • The Rational and Irrational Standard: Russian Architecture as a Facet Of culture / Elena Kabkova and Olga Stukalova
  • Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature. The irrational in the perception of Andrey Platonov's characters / Kira Gordovich
  • The Metaphysics of Numbers in the Eurasian Artistic Mentality: Viktor Pelevin's The Dialectics of the Transition Period (From Nowhere to No Place) / Liudmila Safronova
  • "Questions to Which Reason Has No Answern: Iurii Mamleev's Irrationalism in European context / Oliver Ready
  • Vladimir Sorokin and the Return of History / David Gillespie.