LEADER 03591nam 22006011 450 001 9910820798603321 005 20141014140414.0 010 $a1-4411-0258-2 010 $a1-5013-2474-8 010 $a1-62892-674-0 010 $a1-4411-0995-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781628926743 035 $a(CKB)3710000000341882 035 $a(EBL)1925244 035 $a(OCoLC)900540223 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001421580 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12610259 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001421580 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11423204 035 $a(PQKB)11577557 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1925244 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09258986 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000341882 100 $a20150504d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRussian irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky $eseven essays in literature and thought /$fOlga Tabachnikova 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-336-21312-4 311 $a1-4411-7120-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA Word of Caution Introduction -- 1. The Language of Irrationalism? -- 2. Russia and the West. The Power of Illusion -- 3. On Russian Dreamers -- 4. Russian Eros: Love in the Context of Moral Philosophy -- 5. Towards the Question of the 'Man of Nature' and 'Man of Culture' in Russian Literature -- 6. Cases of Subversion. Chekhov and Brodsky: Under the Veneer of Rationalism (or: On the Concepts of Hot and Cold Blood as Philosophical Categories) -- 7. Rebellious Tradition: Russian Literary Laughter, between Poetry and Pain -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Russian irrationalism has been viewed with caution in the West, where it is often seen as antagonistic to, and subversive of, the rational foundations of Western speculative philosophy. Some of the remarkable achievements of the Russian irrationalist approach, however, especially in the artistic sphere, have been recognized and even admired, though not sufficiently investigated. Bridging the gap between intellectual cultures, Olga Tabachnikova discusses such fundamental irrationalist themes as language and the linguistic underpinning of culture; the power of illusion in national consciousness; the changing relationship between love and morality; the cultural roots of humour, as well as the relevance of various individual writers and philosophers from Pushkin to Brodsky to the construction of Russian irrationalism."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aIrrationalism (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRussian literature$xPhilosophy 606 $2Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 615 0$aIrrationalism (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRussian literature$xPhilosophy. 676 $a891.709 700 $aTabachnikova$b Olga$f1967-$01647014 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820798603321 996 $aRussian irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky$94010052 997 $aUNINA