Reformulating Russia : the cultural and intellectual historiography of Russian first-wave émigré writers
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Reformulating Russia : the cultural and intellectual historiography of Russian first-wave émigré writers
(Russian history and culture, v. 7)
Brill, 2011
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Note
Revised version of the author's PhD thesis, University of Bergen, 2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reformulating Russia provides a thorough narratological and contextual analysis of Russian emigre 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Transliterations and Abbreviations
Introduction
Texts and Contexts
Historiography and Narrativity
Research
PART ONE - CONTEXTS
Chapter One Russia Abroad
The Emigre 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
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