Reformulating Russia provides a thorough narratological and contextual analysis of Russian émigré historiography as it appears in Georgii Fedotov's Saints of Ancient Russia, Georgii Florovskii's The Ways of Russian Theology, Nikolai Berdiaev's The...
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Reformulating Russia provides a thorough narratological and contextual analysis of Russian émigré historiography as it appears in Georgii Fedotov's Saints of Ancient Russia, Georgii Florovskii's The Ways of Russian Theology, Nikolai Berdiaev's The Russian Idea and Vasilii Zenkovskii's History of Russian Philosophy. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transliterations and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Texts and Contexts -- Historiography and Narrativity -- Research -- Part One Contexts -- Chapter One Russia Abroad -- The Émigré Community -- Exile as Mission -- Chapter Two Writing Russian History -- Varieties of Intellectual History -- Culture and Cultural History -- Historiography of Imperial Russia -- Part Two Readings -- Chapter Three Georgii Fedotov and the Saints of Ancient Russia -- Culture, Creativity, Tragedy -- Resurrecting Russian Sanctity -- Configuring Russian Holiness -- Fedotov's Ancient and Holy Russia -- Detail and Meaning in Russian Holiness -- The Workers in the Vineyard -- From Negative to Positive Liberty -- Difference and Opposition -- Fedotov's Tragedy -- Fedotov's Historicism -- Chapter Four Georgii Florovskii and the Ways of Russian Theology -- Emigration, Eurasianism and Orthodoxy -- Florovskii's Prophetic Eschatology -- The Pseudomorphosis of Russian Thought -- Gradual Recovery and New Excitements -- Florovskii's Theology of Creativity -- The Ascetic Way Home -- Chapter Five Nikolai Berdiaev and the Russian Idea -- Revolution and Exile -- Berdiaev's Paradoxes and Inconsistencies -- The Russian Idea or the Idea of Russia? -- Chaotic Essentialism -- Russians as Schismatics -- The Martyrology of the Intelligentsia -- Russian Ideas as Ideas of Russia -- Berdiaev's Messianism -- Chapter Six Vasilii Zenkovskii and the History of Russian Philosophy -- Russia and Europe -- The Historiography of Philosophy -- Reframing Russian Philosophy -- Philosophy and its Soil -- Philosophy as a System -- Vladimir Solovev as a Systematic Philosopher -- The Systematic Design and its Content -- The Dialectics of History -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
Contents; Acknowledgements; Transliterations and Abbreviations; Introduction ; Texts and Contexts; Historiography and Narrativity; Research; Part One Contexts; Chapter One Russia Abroad; The Émigré Community; Exile as Mission; Chapter Two Writing Russian History; Varieties of Intellectual History; Culture and Cultural History; Historiography of Imperial Russia; Part Two Readings; Chapter Three Georgii Fedotov and the Saints of Ancient Russia; Culture, Creativity, Tragedy; Resurrecting Russian Sanctity; Configuring Russian Holiness; Fedotov's Ancient and Holy Russia
Detail and Meaning in Russian HolinessThe Workers in the Vineyard; From Negative to Positive Liberty; Difference and Opposition; Fedotov's Tragedy; Fedotov's Historicism; Chapter Four Georgii Florovskii and the Ways of Russian Theology; Emigration, Eurasianism and Orthodoxy; Florovskii's Prophetic Eschatology; The Pseudomorphosis of Russian Thought; Gradual Recovery and New Excitements; Florovskii's Theology of Creativity; The Ascetic Way Home; Chapter Five Nikolai Berdiaev and the Russian Idea; Revolution and Exile; Berdiaev's Paradoxes and Inconsistencies
The Russian Idea or the Idea of Russia?Chaotic Essentialism; Russians as Schismatics; The Martyrology of the Intelligentsia; Russian Ideas as Ideas of Russia; Berdiaev's Messianism; Chapter Six Vasilii Zenkovskii and the History of Russian Philosophy; Russia and Europe; The Historiography of Philosophy; Reframing Russian Philosophy; Philosophy and its Soil; Philosophy as a System; Vladimir Solovev as a Systematic Philosopher; The Systematic Design and its Content; The Dialectics of History; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index