Russian Thought After Communism: The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

An examination of Russia's philosophical heritage. It extends from the Slavophiles to the philosophers of the Silver Age, from emigre religious thinkers to Losev and Bakhtin and assesses the meaning for Russian culture as a whole. Part I Overview; Chapter 1 The Return of Russian Philosophy, Stanislav Bemovich Dzhimbinov; Part II The Nineteenth Century Revisited; Chapter 2 Interpretations and Uses of Slavophilism in Recent Russian Thought, James P. Scanlan; Chapter 3 Toward the New Millennium: Ideas of Resurrection in Fedorov and Solov’ev, George M. YoungJr.; Part III The Silver Age in Postcommunist Perspective; Chapter 4 Russian Philosophers of the Silver Age as Critics of Marxism, Andrzej Walicki; Chapter 5 The Philosophy of Freedom of Nikolai Berdiaev, Piama P. Gaidenko; Chapter 6 Merezhkovskii’s Readings of Tolstoi: Their Contemporary Relevance, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal; Part IV Russian Émigré Thought Reclaimed; Chapter 7 Lev Shestov and the Revival of Religious Thought in Russia, Taras D. Zakydalsky; Chapter 8 The Complex Legacy of Ivan Il’in, Philip T. Grier; Part V Finding Philosophy Under Soviet Rule; Chapter 9 Aleksei Losev and the Phenomenology of Music, Alexander Haardt; Chapter 10 The Making of M.M. Bakhtin as Philosopher, Caryl Emerson;