, to see if you have full access to this publication.
Edited Book No access
In Marx's Shadow
Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Editors:
|
Publisher:
2010
Summary
Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under socialism, the volume examines Eastern Europe and Russian histories of intellectual movements inspired - negatively as well as positively - by Communist arguments and dogmas. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue, the collection demonstrates how various bodies of theoretical knowledge (philosophical, social, political, aesthetic, even theological) were used not only to justify dominant political views, but also to frame oppositional and nonofficial discourses and practices. The examination of the underlying structures of Communism as an intellectual project provides convincing evidence for questioning a dominant approach that routinely frames the post-Communist intellectual development as a 'revival' or, at least, as a 'return' of the repressed intellectual traditions. As the book shows, the logic of a radical break, suggested by this approach, is in contradiction with historical evidence: a significant number of philosophical, theoretical and ideological debates in post-Communist world are in fact the logical continuation of intellectual conversations and confrontations initiated long before 1989.
Keywords
Search publication
Bibliographic data
Edition
1/2010
Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3624-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3626-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
296
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 01. Ideas against Ideocracy: The Platonic Drama of Russian Thought No access
Chapter 02. Asking for More: Finding Utopia in the Critical Sociology of the Budapest School and the Praxis Movement No access
Chapter 03. Aesthetics: A Modus Vivendi in Eastern Europe? No access
Chapter 04. Changing Perceptions of Pavel Florensky in Russian and Soviet Scholarship No access
Chapter 05. The Totalitarian Languages of Utopia and Dystopia: Fidelius and Havel No access
Chapter 06. Philosophy and Martyrdom: The Case of Jan Patocka No access
Chapter 07. Anticommunist Orientalism: Shifting Boundaries of Europe in Dissident Writing No access
Chapter 08. Somatic Nationalism: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity in Russia No access
Chapter 09. Balkanism and Postcolonialism, or On the Beauty of the Airplane View No access
chapter 10. Anxious Intellectuals: Framing the Nation as Class in Belarus No access
Chapater 11. The Demise of Leninism and the Future of Liberal Values No access
Chapter 12. “Politics of Authenticity” and/or Civil Society No access
Chapter 13. Mihai Sora: A Philosopher of Dialogue and Hope No access
