Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 09:50:09 -0700 Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
writes:
> http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0003/1300.html
> http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Cont/ContEpst.htm
> ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the most recent period in the
> development of Russian thought (1960s-1990s). Proceeding from the
> cyclical patterns of Russian intellectual history, I propose to name
>
> it 'the third philosophical awakening.' I define the main tendency
> of
> this period as 'the struggle of thought against ideocracy.' I then
> suggest a classification of main trends in Russian thought of this
> period: (1) Dialectical materialism in its evolution from late
> Stalinism to neo-communist mysticism; (2) Neorationalism and
> Structuralism; (3) Neo-Slavophilism, or the Philosophy of National
> Spirit; (4) Personalism and Liberalism; (5) Religious Philosophy and
>
> Mysticism, both Christian Orthodox and Non-Traditional; (6)
> Culturology or the Philosophy of Culture; (7) Conceptualism or the
> Philosophy of Postmodernity.
> "The Karamazovs are not scoundrels but philosophers, because all
> real
> Russian people are philosophers..."
>
> Dmitry Karamazov, in Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov
>
> It is a property of the Russian people to indulge in philosophy.
> ...The fate of the philosopher in Russia is painful and tragic.
>
> Nikolai Berdyaev. The Russian Idea
>
> The fact that one can annihilate a philosophy . ... or that one can
> prove that a philosophy annihilates itself is of little consequence.
>
> If it's really philosophy, then, like the phoenix, it will always
> rise
> again from its own ashes.
>
> Friedrich Schlegel. Athenaeum Fragments, trans. Peter Firchow, 103.
> <snip>
> Also see A. Walicki book, "A History of Russian Thought, " and
> Leszek Kolakowski, "Main Currents of Marxism."
> Michael Pugliese
>
>
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