Fiction's Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy

Contents\nPreface\nNote on Transliteration and Translation\nAbbreviations\nIntroduction\nPart One. THE DISPLACEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY (1820s-1860s)\n1. The Possibility of a Russian Philosophy: Language and Reader in a New Philosophical Culture (1820s-1830s)\n2. Competing Discourses: Philosophy Marginalized\n3. The Parting of the Ways: Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky, and the Seeds of Russian Philosophical Discourse\nPart Two. THE BIRTH OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY (1870s-1920s)\n4. Philosophical Language between Revelation and Reason: Solovyov\'s Search for Total Unity\n5. Philosophy as Tragedy: Shestov and His Russian Audience\n6. Philosophy in the Breach: Rozanov\'s Philosophical Roguery and the Destruction of Civil Discourse\n7. Philosophy as Epic Drama: Berdiaev\'s Philosophy of the Creative Act\nPart Three. THE SURVIVAL OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE ( 1920s-1950s)\n8. Image and Concept: Losev\'s \"Great Synthesis of Higher Knowledge\" and the Tragedy of Philosophy\n9. The Matter of Philosophy: Dialectical Materialism and Platonov\'s Quest after Questioning\n10. \"Sheer Philosophy\" and \"Vegetative Thinking\": Pasternak\'s Suspension and Preservation of Philosophy\nConclusion\nAppendix: The Generations and Networks of Russian Philosophy\nIndex