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  1. Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky
    seven essays in literature and thought
    Author: Tabachnikova, Olga
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, New York, NY

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781441171207; 9781628926743; 9781441109958
    Edition: First published
    Subjects: Russisch; Literatur; Irrationalismus <Motiv>; Geschichte;
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  2. Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky
    Seven Essays in Literature and Thought
    Author: Tabachnikova, Olga
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing, New York

    Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic... more

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    Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Russian irrationalism has been viewed with caution in the West, where it is often seen as antagonistic to, and subversive of, the rational foundations of Western speculative philosophy. Some of the remarkable achievements of the Russian irrationalist approach, however, especially in the artistic spher

     
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    Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgements; A Word of Caution; Introduction; Concept of (Russian) irrationalism: Methodological problems; On faith and reason in Russia and in the West; More on the ethical dimension of reason.Three types of irrationalism; Cultural differences in historical perspective; The end of rationalist utopia; 1 The Language of Irrationalism?; Language versus culture and reality: The chicken and egg enigma; Impressions from within: The language of betrayal?; Philosophy of language; Language and politics

    2 Russia and the West. The Power of IllusionRussia's relationship with Europe, a brief summary; Looking West: Mixed feelings of Russian writers; Emigration as a magnifying glass of attitude to Russia; Putting practice into theory: Conceptions behind experience; 3 On Russian Dreamers; 4 Russian Eros: Love in the Context of Moral Philosophy; Body and soul: T.heoretical prelude; Russian idea of love as ethical category; 5 Towards the Question of the 'Man of Nature' and 'Man of Culture' in Russian Literature

    6 Cases of Subversion: Chekhov and Brodsky (Under the Veneer of Rationalism, or On the Concepts of Hot and Cold Blood as PhilThe irrational age; Duality of the rational and irrational; Philosophical opposition of 'Hot and Cold Blood' in relation to the opposition of rational-irrational; The role of epistemology for Chekhov and Brodsky; All faith is no more than one-way post' (Vsia vera est' ne bolee,chem pochta v odin konets)44 - Silence of the Gods. Chekhov's andBrodsky's philosophies: kinship and divergence.; Mapping ethics and aesthetics in relation to irrationalism

    7 Rebellious Tradition: Russian Literary Laughter, between Poetry and PainOn ethical aspects of humour: Preliminary remarks; Russian laughter culture in historical perspective; Russian folk-tales, Ivan-The-Fool and philosophy of 'foolishness', Folkloric roots of Shukshin and Vysotsky; Russian literary humour, setting the scene, Fonvizin, Griboedov and Krylov: Creative appropriation; Pushkin, Gogol and continuity of the tradition, Mozartian irony and mischievous pranks, laughter through tears; Lermontov: Is there a place for humour in Russian Romanticism? Turgenev and Tolstoy: Gloomy writers?

    Dostoevsky: Holy Foolishness, parody and black humourThe subtlety of Chekhovian irony: More on kinship of humour and poetry; Kozma Prutkov: Parody and poetry; Irrationalism of Russian life as sarcastic cosmos and lyrical epos: Saltykov-Shchedrin, Leskov and their resonance in the twe; Poetry of the absurd: From structure to ethics: Daniil Kharms and Andrei Platonov; Ironic start to the cruel century: Laughter of pain, relevance of Gogol's irrationalism to Russian dystopian literature, Evgen; Carnival, colour and poetics of chance: Bulgakov, Babel, Ilf and Petrov

    Renaissance of Russian humour during and after the Thaw: Sergei Dovlatov and Venedikt Erofeev: Sad smile and purifying sob