Motherland

by Chamberlain, Lesley

• ISBN13: 9781585679522
• ISBN10: 1585679526
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-05
• Publisher: Overlook Pr

Summary

In Motherland, Lesley Chamberlain has produced an invaluable introduction to the key Russian thinkers of the past two centuries, providing a radical new interpretation of Russian intellectual history that, finally, gives a glimpse into the soul of that singular country.

Table of Contents

The making of the intelligentsia	p. 3
The men of the 1820	p. 5
The beautiful souls	p. 20
The new men	p. 47
The populists	p. 64
The impact of Marx	p. 79
The Silver Age	p. 85
The making of Russian philosophy	p. 95
The moral map	p. 97
Rejecting the view from Descartes	p. 138
The contest of good and evil	p. 165
Against idealism : cure or undoing?	p. 183
Lenin and the view from no one	p. 185
The long tradition	p. 201
How the long tradition survived	p. 203
On the edge of reason	p. 248
A comparative chronology of Russian and Western philosophers	p. 285
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