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Mikhail Epstein - Ideas Against Ideocracy, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2021

Ideas Against Ideocracy

Non-Marxist Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953–1991)

Av Mikhail Epstein

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Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures (awarded by the Modern Languages Association)This groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost theoreticians of culture and scholars of Russian philosophy gives for the first time a systematic examination of the development of Russian philosophy during the late Soviet period.Countering the traditional view of an intellectual wilderness under the Soviet regime, Mikhail Epstein provides a comprehensive account of Russian thought of the second half of the 20th century that is highly sophisticated without losing clarity. It provides new insights into previously mostly ignored areas such as late-Soviet Russian nationalism and Eurasianism, religious thought, cosmism and esoterism, and postmodernism and conceptualism.Epstein shows how Russian philosophy has long been trapped in an intellectual prison of its own making as it sought to create its own utopia. However, he demonstrates that it is time to reappraise Russian thought, now freed from the bonds of Soviet totalitarianism and ideocracy but nevertheless dangerously engaged into new nationalist aspirations and metaphysical radicalism. We are left with not only a new and exciting interpretation of recent Russian intellectual history, but also the opportunity to rethink our own philosophical heritage.
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Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA. From 2012–2015 he was Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University, UK. His research interests include new directions in the humanities and methods of intellectual creativity, contemporary philosophy, postmodernism, Russian literature, and philosophy and religion of the 20th–21st centuries. He is the author of 40 books, including The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto (Bloomsbury, 2012), and more than 800 articles and essays. His work has been translated into 26 languages.

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This second volume of Mikhail Epstein's magisterial philosophical survey is an immense event. Each of its four sections-conservative nationalism, Orthodox religiosity, mystical cosmism, postmodernism-presents major Russian thinkers and artists working their way out of an astonishing paradox: how militant materialism of the Soviet sort could have promoted its apparent opposite, a Platonic utopia where ideas reigned supreme over factual matter, wholeness over difference, and totalizing projections over individual lived experience. The quest of these non-Marxist creators for solid ground is both frightening and inspirational.

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