Socrates in Russia

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52331-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 781 g

Reihe: Contemporary Russian Philosophy

This volume explores the influence of the Socratic legacy in the Russian, East European, and Soviet contexts. For writers, philosophers, and artists, Socrates has served as a potent symbol—of the human capacity for philosophical reflection, as well as the tumultuous (and often dangerous) reality in which Russian-speaking and Soviet intellectuals found themselves. The thirteen chapters include surveys of historical periods and movements (the 18th century, Nietzscheanism, and the “Greek Renaissance” of Russian culture), studies of individual writers and philosophers (Skovoroda, Herzen, Dostoevsky, Rozanov, Bely, Narbut, and many others), and investigations of Socratic subtexts (e.g., in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita and Nosov’s Neznaika series for children). The volume concludes with a “Socratic Texts” section of new translations. The plurality of these topics demonstrates the continued relevance of the Socratic myth not only for Russian-speaking culture, but for the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

DeBlasio, Alyssa

Juharyan, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Alyssa DeBlasio and Victoria Juharyan

1 Socrates in the Philosophy and Intellectual Culture of the Russian Enlightenment

Tatiana Artemyeva

2 The Poet Hryhory Skovoroda: Knowledge as a Process

Erica Camisa Morale

3 Elenchus from Other Shores: Alexander Herzen’s Dialogue in Absentia

Arpi Movsesian

4 Writing the Russian Socrates: Dostoevsky, Skovoroda, and the World of The Brothers Karamazov

Brian Armstrong

5 A Symposium with Vasily Rozanov

Irina Erman

6 Anti-Socratic Attitudes in Russian “Nietzscheanism”

Andrea Oppo

7 Gustav Shpet and the Greek Renaissance of Russian Thought

Liisa Bourgeot

8 “Skovoroda’s Way” in the Russian Symbolist and Post-Symbolist Tradition

Vadim Besprozvany

9 Between a Satyr and an Eccentric: Nikolai Bugaev as a Russian Socrates in Andrei Bely’s Works

Daria Solodkaia

10 Conversations with Socrates: The Image of Socrates in Russian and Soviet Philosophical Literature

Olga Lyanda-Geller

11 The Fear of the Word: Socratic Subtext in the Yershalaim Chapters of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita

Ksenia Radchenko

12 Maieutics for Socialist Children: Nikolai Nosov’s Neznaika and the Epistemology of Know-Nothingness

Denis Saltykov

13 Socrates as Symbol: Alexander Herzen, Merab Mamardashvili, and Alexander Pushkin

Alyssa DeBlasio

14 Socrates the Greek Teacher

Leo Tolstoy and Aleksandra Kalmykova

15 Grigory S. Skovoroda

Leo Tolstoy

16 All-Divergence: The Teachings of Iakov Abramov as Interpreted by His Disciples

Mikhail Epstein

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alyssa DeBlasio is John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Russian at Dickinson College. She is the author of two monographs: The End of Russian Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Together with Mikhail Epstein, she edits Filosofia: An Encyclopedia of Russian Thought, an online English-language resource dedicated to contemporary Russian philosophy.

Victoria Juharyan is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German and Russian at UC Davis. She received her PhD from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton in 2018. In addition to revising her dissertation, “The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy: A Study in Aesthetics,” she is also completing her book manuscript, German Idealism and Russian Realism: Hegel’s Philosophy in Goncharov, Turgenyev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky.