Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology

Daniel J. Mahoney

doi:10.5771/9780742569737

Summary

In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the political condition of modern man through an exegesis and analysis of Solzhenitsyn's work. Mahoney demonstrates the tremendous, yet often unappreciated, impact of Solzhenitsyn's writing on twentieth century thinking through an examination of the writer's profoundly important critique of communist totalitarianism in a judicious and original mix of western and Russian, Christian and classical wisdom.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2001
Copyright Year: 2001
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-2113-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7425-6973-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 181
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface and Acknowledgments No access
3. Brief Chronology of Solzhenitsyn s Life and Work No access
1: Introductory Note: Taking Solzhenitsyn Seriously No access Pages 1 - 18
2: The One True Progress: Solzhenitsyn's Alternative to Modern Liberalism No access Pages 19 - 40
3: The Experience of Totalitarianism and the Recovery of Nature No access Pages 41 - 64
4: True and False Liberalism: Stolypin and his Enemies in August 1914 No access Pages 65 - 98
5: The Ascent from Modernity: "Repentance and Self-Limitation in the Life of Nations" No access Pages 99 - 134
6: The Physiognomy of Liberty: Solzhenitsyn's "Tocquevillian" Defense of Local Self-Government No access Pages 135 - 156
7: Concluding Reflection: the Soul between Politics and Eternity No access Pages 157 - 172
Bibliographical Note No access Pages 173 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 180
About the Author No access Pages 181 - 181