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This volume explores the influence of the Socratic legacy in the Russian, East European, and Soviet contexts. For writers, philosophers, and artists, Socrates has served as a potent symbol—of the human capacity for philosophical reflection, as well as the tumultuous (and often dangerous) reality in which Russian-speaking and Soviet intellectuals found themselves. The thirteen chapters include surveys of historical periods and movements (the 18th century, Nietzscheanism, and the “Greek Renaissance” of Russian culture), studies of individual writers and philosophers (Skovoroda, Herzen, Dostoevsky, Rozanov, Bely, Narbut, and many others), and investigations of Socratic subtexts (e.g., in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita and Nosov’s Neznaika series for children). The volume concludes with a “Socratic Texts” section of new translations. The plurality of these topics demonstrates the continued relevance of the Socratic myth not only for Russian-speaking culture, but for the world.
This volume explores the influence of the Socratic legacy in the Russian, East European, and Soviet contexts. For writers, philosophers, and artists, Socrates has served as a potent symbol—of the human capacity for philosophical reflection, as well as the tumultuous (and often dangerous) reality ...
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Alyssa DeBlasio is John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Russian at Dickinson College. She is the author of two monographs: The End of Russian Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Together with Mikhail Epstein, she edits Filosofia: An Encyclopedia of Russian Thought, an online English-language resource dedicated to contemporary Russian philosophy.
Victoria Juharyan is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German and Russian at UC Davis. She received her PhD from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton in 2018. In addition to revising her dissertation, “The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy: A Study in Aesthetics,” she is also completing her book manuscript, German Idealism and Russian Realism: Hegel’s Philosophy in Goncharov, Turgenyev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky.
Victoria Juharyan is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German and Russian at UC Davis. She received her PhD from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton in 2018. In addition to revising her dissertation, “The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy: A Study in Aesthetics,” she is also completing her book manuscript, German Idealism and Russian Realism: Hegel’s Philosophy in Goncharov, Turgenyev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky.
Alyssa DeBlasio is John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Russian at Dickinson College. She is the author of two monographs: The End of Russian Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema ...
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