Russia's Path toward Enlightenment

Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia’s path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great’s opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Hamburg shows why Russia’s enlightenment constituted a precondition for the explosive emergence of nineteenth-century writers such as Fedor Dostoyevsky and Vladimir Soloviev.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-02
Mått:156 x 235 x 52 mm
Vikt:1 569 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:912
Förlag:Yale University Press
ISBN:9780300113136

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“This patient and persuasive book is the indispensible prehistory to the Russia we think we know, a country whose politics constantly disappoints. Hamburg does not whitewash that politics. But he does remind us that the Kantian values of autonomy, self-mastery, and secular reason are not the only Enlightenment possible; however imperfectly realized, more potent in Russia have always been the ideals of spiritual illumination and applied Christian ethics. This is intellectual history at its most empathetic, full of personal stories but without ever losing its analytic edge.”—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University