Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life

Olga Tabachnikova is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of Central Lancashire and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bath. There she obtained two PhDs (Mathematics , 1995; Franco-Russian Studies, 2007). She has numerous publications on Russian literature and culture.

• Introduction. Olga Tabachnikova, Rationalising Russian IrrationalismPart I: On the Place of Irrationalism in the Russian History of Ideas Chapter 1. Barbara Olaszek, The Traditions of Rationalism in Russian Culture of the Pre-Soviet PeriodChapter 2. Tatiana Chumakova, Irrationalism in Ancient RussiaChapter 3. Oliver Smith, Ethos versus Pathos: The Ontologisation of Knowledge in Russian PhilosophyChapter 4. Christopher John Tooke, Irrationalism and anti-Semitism in Late-tsarist LiteratureChapter 5. Natalia Vinokurova, Russian Semiotics of Behaviour, or can a Russian Person be Regarded as ‘Homo Economicus’?Chapter 6. Elizabeth Harrison, ‘Fides et ratio’: Catholicism, Rationalism and Mysticism in Russian Literary Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyPart II: Russian Classics and Their Influence in Space and TimeChapter 7. Arkadii Goldenberg, The Irrational Basis of Gogol’’s MythopoeticsChapter 8. Sergei Kibal’nik, On the Philosophical Sources and Nature of Dostoevskii’s Anti-RationalismChapter 9. Alexander McCabe, Shifting French Perspectives on Dostoevskian Anti-RationalismChapter 10. Margarita Odesskaia, The Concept of Love and Beauty in the Works of TurgenevChapter 11. Olga Tabachnikova, Patterns of European Irrationalism, from Source to Estuary: Johann Georg Hamann, Lev Shestov and Anton Chekhov – On Both Sides of ReasonChapter 12. Rainer Grübel, Lev Tolstoi and Vasilii Rozanov: Two Fundamental(ist) Types of Russian IrrationalismPart III: The Silver AgeChapter 13. Henrieke Stahl, From Neo-Kantian Theory of Cognition to Christian Intellectual Mysticism:Logical Voluntarism in Vladimir Solov’ev and Andrei BelyiChapter 14. Marilyn Schwinn Smith, Aleksei Remizov’s Pliashushchii demon – tanets i slovo: Cultural Memory, Dreams and DemonsChapter 15. Ildikó Mária Rácz, Irrational Elements in Ivan Bunin’s Short Story “The Grammar of Love”Part IV: Russian Culture into the 20th Century and BeyondChapter 16. Jeremy Howard, Viewing Askance: Irrationalist Aspects in Russian Art from Fedotov to Malevich and into the BeyondChapter 17. Aleksandr Ivashkin, Symbols, Metaphors and Irrationalities in Twentieth-Century Music Chapter 18. Oleg Kovalov, The Irrational in Russian Cinema (A Short Course)Chapter 19. Olga Stukalova and Elena Kabkova, The Rational and Irrational Standard: Russian Architecture as a Facet of CulturePart V: Soviet and Post-Soviet LiteratureChapter 20. Kira Gordovich, The Irrational in the Perception of Andrey Platonov’s CharactersChapter 21. Liudmila Safronova, The Metaphysics of Numbers in the Eurasian Artistic Mentality: Viktor Pelevin’s The Dialectics of the Transition Period (From Nowhere to No Place)Chapter 22. Oliver Ready, “Questions to which Reason has no Answer”: Iurii Mamleev’s Irrationalism in European ContextChapter 23. David Gillespie, Vladimir Sorokin and the Return of History