Facets of Russian Irrationalism Between Art and Life : Mystery Inside Enigma.

Intro -- Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life: Mystery inside Enigma -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Rationalising Russian Irrationalism -- PART 1: On the Place of Irrationalism in the Russian History of Ideas -- 1: The Traditions of Rationalism in Russian Culture of the Pre-Soviet Period -- 2: Irrationalism in Ancient Russia -- 3: Ethos Versus Pathos. The Ontologisation of Knowledge in Russian Philosophy -- 4: Irrationalism and Antisemitism in Late-Tsarist Literature -- 5: Russian Semiotics of Behaviour, or Can a Russian Person be Regarded as 'Homo Economicus'? -- 6: Fides et ratio: Catholicism, Rationalism and Mysticism in Russian Literary Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- PART 2: Russian Classics and Their Influence in Space and Time -- 7: The Irrational Basis of Gogol's Mythopoetics -- 8: On the Philosophical Sources and Nature of Dostoevskii's Anti-Rationalism -- 9: Shifting French Perspectives on Dostoevskian Anti-Rationalism -- 10: The Concept of Love and Beauty in the Works of Turgenev -- 11: Patterns of European Irrationalism, from Source to Estuary: Johann Georg Hamann, Lev Shestov and Anton Chekhov - on Both Sides of Reason -- 12: Lev Tolstoi and Vasilii Rozanov: Two Fundamental(ist) Types of Russian Irrationalism -- PART 3: The Silver Age -- 13: From Neo-Kantian Theory of Cognition to Christian Intellectual Mysticism: Logical Voluntarism in Vladimir Solov'ev and Andrei Belyi -- 14: Aleksei Remizov's Pliashushchii demon - tanets i slovo: Cultural Memory, Dreams and Demons -- 15: Irrational Elements in Ivan Bunin's Short Story 'The Grammar of Love' -- PART 4: Russian Culture into the 20th Century and Beyond -- 16: Viewing Askance: Irrationalist Aspects in Russian Art from Fedotov to Malevich and into the Beyond.

17: Symbols, Metaphors and Irrationalities in Twentieth-Century Music -- 18: The Irrational in Russian Cinema: A Short Course -- 19: The Rational and Irrational Standard: Russian Architecture as a Facet of Culture -- PART 5: Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature -- 20: The Irrational in the Perception of Andrei Platonov's Characters -- 21: The Metaphysics of Numbers in the Eurasian Artistic Mentality: Viktor Pelevin's The Dialectics of the Transition Period (From Nowhere to No Place) -- 22: "Questions to Which Reason Has No Answer": Iurii Mamleev's Irrationalism in European Context -- 23: Vladimir Sorokin and the Return of History -- Index.

This book offers a versatile approach to the enigmatic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism of the last two hundred years and beyond. The 23 chapters look at diverse artistic and cultural forms, including Russian philosophy, theology, literature, music and visual arts.

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