The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought

Preface
A Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: On Russian Thought and Intellectual Tradition
	Historical Evolution
	The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought: Aim, Scope, and Structure
	Bibliography
Part I: Russian Philosophical Thought
	Chapter 2: Politics and Enlightenment in Russia
		General Considerations: Enlightenment in Europe and Russia
		Enlightenment Under Catherine II: Early Years
		Enlightenment Under Catherine II: The Encounter with Diderot
		Three Russian Responses to Catherine’s Enlightenment Program
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Russian Religious Philosophy: The Nature of the Phenomenon, Its Path, and Its Afterlife
		Preamble: Some Why’s and What’s
		The Birth of Russian Philosophical Discourse as an Epistemological Event
		Characterization of the Newborn Phenomenon
		Religious Thought in Diaspora as a Discursive Modulation
		Post-Soviet Philosophy: The Palingenesis? The Reverse Modulation?
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Russian Political Philosophy: Between Autocracy and Revolution
		Introduction
		Dialectics and Destruction (1825–1881)
		From Repression to Revolution (1881–1921)
		Soviet Union and Emigration (1922–1956)
		Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Period (1956–2018)
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Between Aristocratism and Artistry: Two Centuries of the Revolutionary Paradigm in Russia
		Introduction
		The Personification Method of Comprehending History
		Pointing the Way to Artistry: The Aristocrat, Revolutionary, and Writer Alexander Herzen
		The Theatricality of Revolution and the Bohemian
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Kant and Kantianism in Russia: A Historical Overview
		Introduction
		The Main Stages of Kant’s Reception in Russia
		Kant’s Reception in Russian Ethics and Legal Philosophy
		Kant’s Reception in Russian Religious Philosophy and Orthodoxy
		Kant and the Political and Historical Situation in Russia
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Russia
		The “Nature” of Freedom
		Mikhail Bakunin
		Alexander Herzen
		Vladimir Solovyov
		Philosophies of Action
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Vladimir Solovyov: Philosophy as Systemic Unity
		Can Solovyov’s Philosophy Be Viewed as a Systematic Whole?
		The Main Systemic Dimensions of Solovyov’s Philosophy
		All-Unity: The Central Category and Main Principle of Solovyov’s Philosophical Doctrine
		(A) Solovyov’s Attitude to Philosophical Systematics and to the Disciplinary Division of Philosophical Knowledge: Philosophical Beginnings of Integral Knowledge [Filosofskie nachala tsel′nogo znaniia]
		(b) Critique of Abstract Principles (1880)
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Natural Sciences and the Radical Intelligentsia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Lev Shestov’s Philosophy of Freedom
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: Nikolai Berdyaev’s Philosophy of Creativity as a Revolt Against the Modern Worldview
		Introduction
		Critique of Modernity
		Theurgy
		Method, Myth, and Moralism
		Concluding Thoughts
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Lenin and His Controversy over Philosophy: On the Philosophical Significance of Materialism and Empiriocriticism
		I
		II
		III
		IV
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Russian Marxism and Its Philosophy: From Theory to Ideology
		Dialectical Materialism: Methodology or Theory?
		Dialectics: Logical or Ontological Category?
		The Theory of Cognition: The Theory of Reflection or the Theory of Active Experience?
			The Notion of Materialism
			Materialist Forms of Cognition
		Historical Materialism Between Base and Superstructure
		Concluding Remarks
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: Between East and West: Russian Identity in the Émigré Writings of Ilya Fondaminsky and Semyon Portugeis
		Introduction
		Fondaminsky and Portugeis: Two Biographies
		Ilya Fondaminsky (I): Russia in the Context of World History—Eastern Theocracy in Northern Eurasia
		Ilya Fondaminsky (II): Death of an Empire—The Order of the Intelligentsia Against the State
		Semyon Portugeis (I): The Riddle of the Bolshevik Coup
		Semyon Portugeis (II): Is There a Way Out of Bolshevism?
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: Ivan A. Ilyin: Russia’s “Non-Hegelian” Hegelian
		The Making of a Philosopher, Lawyer, and Political Theorist
		A Critique of Ilyin’s Critique of Hegel
		Later Writings in Political and Legal Theory: The Collected Works
		Bibliography
	Chapter 16: Gustav Shpet’s Path Through Phenomenology to Philosophy of Language
		Early Hints of a Phenomenological Philosophy of Language
		From the Being of Consciousness to the Logic of History
		Onward to the Logic of Language
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 17: Evald Ilyenkov: Philosophy as the Science of Thought
		Introduction
		Beginnings: The Ilyenkov-Korovikov Theses
		Cosmological Phantasmagoria
		Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete
		The Ideal
		Idols and Ideals
		Trials and Tribulations
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 18: The “Men of the Sixties”: Philosophy as a Social Phenomenon
		Who were these “Men of the Sixties”?
		How did this Renewal of Philosophy Begin, and What did it Include?
		The “Hamburg Score” of Philosophy
		The Prominent “Men of the Sixties” Philosophers
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 19: The Activity Approach in Late Soviet Philosophy
		S.L. Rubinstein: An Early Version of Activity Theory in Soviet Philosophy and Psychology
		Activity Theory in Soviet Psychology
		The Meaning of Activity Theory in Soviet Philosophy
		Activity as a Philosophical Problem
		Activity in the Context of Epistemology
		Activity Theory in Contemporary Philosophy and Cognitive Science
		Bibliography
	Chapter 20: A Return to Tradition: The Epistemological Style in Russia’s Post-Soviet Philosophy
		Introduction
		Bringing “Positive Philosophy on Russian Soil” Up to Date for Modern Epistemology
		Research Trends in Contemporary Russian Epistemology
		The Epistemological Debate over “the Self-Integrity of Knowledge”
		Basic Science and Applied Research: Between Conversation and Communications (on “Trading Zones” and “Sphere of Conversation” [“Sfera razgovora”])
		The Cognitive Status of the “Epistemological Style”
		Historicism as the Foundational Principle of Cognition: A Discussion of Reconstructions
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part II: Philosophy in Dialogue with Literature and Art
	Chapter 21: The Russian Novel as a Medium of Moral Reflection in the Long Nineteenth Century
		The Education of the Russian Novel
		The Prisoners of Honour
		The Gaps in Christology
		Revolution as the Resurrection
		Nabokov’s Meta-Utopias
		Bibliography
	Chapter 22: Nikolai Gogol, Symbolic Geography, and the Invention of the Russian Provinces
		Gogol: Biography and Geography
		Making the Provinces Visible
		Where and What Are the Provinces?
		“Such Is the Nature of the Provincial City”
		Bibliography
	Chapter 23: Belinsky and the Sociality of Reason
		Belinsky’s Literary and Social Impact
		Before Hegel: Moscow University, the Philosophical Circle, and the Telescope
		Hegel and a New Sense of Self
		Literature and Sociality
		Bibliography
	Chapter 24: The Vocations of Nikolai Grot and the Tasks of Russian Philosophy
		The Enigma of Grot’s Philosophy
		The Philosophy of Flux and Its Methods, 1877–1885
		The Soul and the Tasks of Monodualism
		In Search of the Discipline and the Tasks of True Philosophy (1886–1892)
		On Moral Ideals and the Ethical Tasks of Philosophy (Kant, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy)
		Plato and the Tasks of Russian Philosophy
		The Duty of Philosophical Vocation
		Bibliography
	Chapter 25: Chernyshevsky and Dostoevsky: Together in Opposition
		Bibliography
	Chapter 26: Tolstoy’s Philosophy of Life
		I
		II
		III
		Bibliography
	Chapter 27: “Teaching of Life”: Tolstoy’s Moral-Philosophical Aesthetics
		The Narrow Context: Philosophy of Art
		The Wider Context: Philosophy of Life
		Legacy
		Bibliography
	Chapter 28: Osip Mandelstam’s Poetic Practice and Theory and Pavel Florensky’s Philosophical Contexts
		“Common Human Roots of Idealism”
		“Letter Two: Doubt”
		“Silentium” and All-Unity
		“The Horseshoe Finder” and “Doubt”
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 29: Future-in-the-Past: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Thought Between Heritage and Reception
		The Problem
		The Abyss
		Future-in-the-Past
		The Ambivalence
		The In-Between(s)
		The Transition
		The Reversal
		The Decisive Fact
		Bibliography
	Chapter 30: Bakhtin, Translation, World Literature
		Bibliography
	Chapter 31: Alexei F. Losev’s Mythology of Music as a Development of the Hermeneutics and Sociology of Music
		Introduction
		Absolute Dialectics = Absolute Mythology
		Musical Myth as a Hermeneutic Method
		From Hermeneutics to Historical Sociology
		Bibliography
	Chapter 32: The Young Marx and the Tribulations of Soviet Marxist-Leninist Aesthetics
		Introduction
		The Dawning of Aesthetics in Soviet Philosophy
		Marx—the Aesthetician?
		The Societalists [obshchestvenniki] Versus the Naturists [prirodniki]
		What Went Missing During the Aesthetics Discussion
		Afterword
		Bibliography
	Chapter 33: Mikhail Sholokhov, Andrei Platonov, and Varlam Shalamov: The Road to Hell in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
		The Philosophy of Russian History and the Constants of Social Consciousness
		Mikhail Sholokhov, Andrei Platonov, and Varlam Shalamov as the Creators of the Philosophy of Russian History
		What Does a Philosopher Do When Working with a Philosophical Literary Text?
		“…my heart has dried up and my mind is fading.” —Andrei Platonov
		“All the excuses sought by the brain were false and hollow.” —Varlam Shalamov
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 34: Yuri Lotman and the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics: Contemporary Epistemic and Social Contexts
		The School: Its Structure and Main Principles
		Lotman’s Intellectual Trajectory: Constants and Changes
		Two Models of Communication and the Idea of Translation
		Translation and Untranslatability
		Lotman in the Twenty-First Century
		Bibliography
	Chapter 35: Art as an Instrument of Philosophy
		Valery Podoroga’s Analytical Anthropology
		Philosophy in Mass Societies: Thinking with Art
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part III: Afterword
	Chapter 36: Russian Thought and Russian Thinkers
		Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index