Russian Revolution as Ideal and Practice

Thomas Telios is Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.Dieter Thomä is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.Ulrich Schmid is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

• 1.Preface.- 2. Beyond the Horizon: The Russian Revolution Seen from Afar.- 3. Reenacting the Revolution? Theater and Politics of Repetition.- 4. Revolution in Sexual Ethics: Communism and the ‘Sex Problem’.- 5. Revolution and Salvation.- 6. Law, Absolute Will, and the ‘Withering of the State’: Sovereignty at the Limits of Lenin’s ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’.- 7. What Is Life Like After Revolution? Administration, Habit, and Democracy in Lenin’s The State and Revolution – and Beyond.- 8. German and Jewish Conspiracies: The October Revolution from the perspective of the Italian Fascists and the German National Socialists.- 9. A Narrative Theory for the October Revolution (From Maugham to Benjamin and Back).- 10. October and the Prospects for Revolution. The Views of Arendt, Adorno, and Marcuse.- 11. Memory politics and the ‘politics of memory’.- 12. Into Historical Limbo: The Legacy of the October Revolution in Russia.- 13. The Concepts of Revolution.- 14. The Possibilityof the Revolution.- 15. Time Intensification in Revolutionary Dynamics.- 16. Postscript: Communist Subjectivity and the Politics of Collectiversalism.