Arnab Roy Chowdhury - Böcker

Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century is a comprehensive introduction to pre-Soviet Russian social theory, tracing its evolution through the works of influential thinkers such as Pyotr Chaadaev, Leo Mechnikov, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Pavel Lilienfeld. This pioneering text weaves together a chronological narrative that highlights the overlapping contributions of these intellectuals, rediscovering the broader roots of sociology within Russia’s rich historical and philosophical landscape. By synthesizing key ideas and movements, the book provides an indispensable foundation for understanding the development of Russian social thought and its enduring impact on global intellectual traditions.Designed for an academic and scholarly audience, this book is an essential resource for students, educators, and researchers in Russian social theory, philosophy, sociology, history, and political science. It invites readers to delve deeply into the intellectual currents of 19th-century Russia, offering fresh insights and critical perspectives for those seeking to expand their understanding of social theory’s historical dimensions.

Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century is a comprehensive introduction to pre-Soviet Russian social theory, tracing its evolution through the works of influential thinkers such as Pyotr Chaadaev, Leo Mechnikov, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Pavel Lilienfeld. This pioneering text weaves together a chronological narrative that highlights the overlapping contributions of these intellectuals, rediscovering the broader roots of sociology within Russia’s rich historical and philosophical landscape. By synthesizing key ideas and movements, the book provides an indispensable foundation for understanding the development of Russian social thought and its enduring impact on global intellectual traditions.Designed for an academic and scholarly audience, this book is an essential resource for students, educators, and researchers in Russian social theory, philosophy, sociology, history, and political science. It invites readers to delve deeply into the intellectual currents of 19th-century Russia, offering fresh insights and critical perspectives for those seeking to expand their understanding of social theory’s historical dimensions.

Boundaries, borders and margins are related concepts and realities, and each of these can be conceptualized and organized in closed or open ways—with degrees of closure or openness. The logics of stasis and closure, as well as cults of exclusivist and exclusionary sovereignty, are reflected and embodied in the closed xenophobic conceptualization and organization of boundaries, borders and margins. But, an open conceptualization of the borderlands, where mixing and hybridity take place at a rapid, even dizzying, pace, gives rise to Creolization—at the threshold of sovereignties, which can also be imagined. At present, our border zones are spaces of anxiety-ridden security arrangements, violence and death. The existing politics of boundary maintenance is wedded to a cult of sovereignty at various levels, which produces bare lives, bodies and lands. We need the new art of border-crossing to be defined by the notion of camaraderie and shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. Border zones can also be zones of meetings, communication, transcendence and festive celebration of the limits of our identities. Thus, we need a new art and politics of boundary transmutation, transformation and transcendence, in the broadest possible sense, that entails the production of spatial, scalar, somatic, cognitive, affective and spiritual transitions.