Socrates in Russia

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1. Socrates in the Philosophy and Intellectual Culture of the Russian Enlightenment
Chapter 2. The Poet Hryhory Skovoroda: Knowledge as a Process
Chapter 3. Elenchus from Other Shores: Alexander Herzen\'s Dialogue in Absentia
Chapter 4. Writing the Russian Socrates: Dostoevsky, Skovoroda, and the World of The Brothers Karamazov
Chapter 5. A Symposium with Vasily Rozanov
Chapter 6. Anti-Socratic Attitudes in Russian “Nietzscheanism”
Chapter 7. Gustav Shpet and the Greek Renaissance of Russian Thought
Chapter 8. “Skovoroda\'s Way” in the Russian Symbolist and Post-Symbolist Tradition
Chapter 9. Between a Satyr and an Eccentric: Nikolai Bugaev as a Russian Socrates in Andrei Bely\'s Works
Chapter 10. Conversations with Socrates: The Image of Socrates in Russian and Soviet Philosophical Literature
Chapter 11. The Fear of the Word: Socratic Subtext in the Yershalaim Chapters of Mikhail Bulgakov\'s Master and Margarita
Chapter 12. Maieutics for Socialist Children: Nikolai Nosov\'s Neznaika and the Epistemology of Know-Nothingness
Chapter 13. Socrates as Symbol: Alexander Herzen, Merab Mamardashvili, and Alexander Pushkin
Socratic Texts
Chapter 14. Socrates the Greek Teacher [1885]
Chapter 15. Grigory S. Skovoroda [1907]
Chapter 16. All-Divergence: The Teachings of Iakov Abramov as Interpreted by His Disciples [1984–1986]
Index