Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA, and former Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK. He has authored 30 books (in English and Russian), including The Transformative Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2012), and approximately 600 essays and articles, translated into 16 languages. Professor Epstein has won national and international awards, including The Andrei Bely Prize (S.-Petersburg, 1991) and the Liberty Prize, awarded annually for "the outstanding contribution to the development of Russian - U.S. cultural relations" (New York, 2000).

Few books could be a better, more incisive and captivating guide to the intellectual richness of an important historical period than Mikhail Epstein's history of Russian thought in the late Soviet period ... a treasure-trove of discovery, opening up a vault of riches that is vast and multi-leveled.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Vicissitudes of Soviet MarxismPart 2. Neo-rationalism. Structuralism. General methodologyPart 3. The philosophy of personality and of freedomPart 4. Culturology, or, the philosophy of cultureConclusionWorks citedAppendix: Original Russian and other foreign-language titlesName indexSubject index

Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA, and former Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK. He has authored 30 books (in English and Russian), including The Transformative Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2012), and approximately 600 essays and articles, translated into 16 languages. Professor Epstein has won national and international awards, including The Andrei Bely Prize (S.-Petersburg, 1991) and the Liberty Prize, awarded annually for "the outstanding contribution to the development of Russian - U.S. cultural relations" (New York, 2000).

Few books could be a better, more incisive and captivating guide to the intellectual richness of an important historical period than Mikhail Epstein's history of Russian thought in the late Soviet period ... a treasure-trove of discovery, opening up a vault of riches that is vast and multi-leveled.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Vicissitudes of Soviet MarxismPart 2. Neo-rationalism. Structuralism. General methodologyPart 3. The philosophy of personality and of freedomPart 4. Culturology, or, the philosophy of cultureConclusionWorks citedAppendix: Original Russian and other foreign-language titlesName indexSubject index

Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA, and former Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK. He has authored 30 books (in English and Russian), including The Transformative Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2012), and approximately 600 essays and articles, translated into 16 languages. Professor Epstein has won national and international awards, including The Andrei Bely Prize (S.-Petersburg, 1991) and the Liberty Prize, awarded annually for "the outstanding contribution to the development of Russian - U.S. cultural relations" (New York, 2000).

Few books could be a better, more incisive and captivating guide to the intellectual richness of an important historical period than Mikhail Epstein's history of Russian thought in the late Soviet period ... a treasure-trove of discovery, opening up a vault of riches that is vast and multi-leveled.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Vicissitudes of Soviet MarxismPart 2. Neo-rationalism. Structuralism. General methodologyPart 3. The philosophy of personality and of freedomPart 4. Culturology, or, the philosophy of cultureConclusionWorks citedAppendix: Original Russian and other foreign-language titlesName indexSubject index