Marianna Shakhnovich, Ekaterina Teryukova (eds.) The History of the Study of Religion and Russian Intellectual History in XIX-XX

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Arina Aleksina
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Intellectual History

Philosophical Madness

1837 ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Paul W. Werth
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Intellectual History ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Blank Slate ◽  
The Stranger

Among the stranger literary products of 1837 was an essay called Apology of a Madman. Together with companion Philosophical Letters, this text represents a fundamental moment in the history of Russian thought and makes its author, Peter Chaadaev, a central figure in Russian intellectual history. For these texts not only played a major role in precipitating a grand debate between Westernizers and Slavophiles about Russia’s place in the world, but also laid the foundations for all subsequent philosophies of history in Russia. And by positing that Russia constituted a blank slate on which virtually anything could be inscribed, the Apology exerted a powerful influence on anyone contemplating Russia’s future. Chaadaev’s interventions in 1836–7 thus gave birth to a particular way of thinking about Russia’s past and future, and the country would not be the same without them.

Letters of Yuri Fedorovich Samarin to Countess Maria Fedorovna Sollogub (1864–1876)

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 283-357
Author(s):  
Andrey A. Teslya
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Reform Period ◽  
Systematic Character ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Intellectual History ◽  
Preparatory Work

The present publication with comments includes the letters of Yuri Fedorovich Samarin to Countess Maria Fedorovna Sollogub (nee Samarina, the correspondent’s sister) in the period of 1864–1876. The special interest to the published materials is called for by the three circumstances: first, Samarin’s epistolary heritage of 1960– 1876 has been published only partially, in contrast to his correspondence of 1840–1850; second, due to family and spiritual kinship Samarin’s letters to his sister touch upon all aspects of his activities in the period, including his work in zemsky and city self-government bodies and preparatory work for foreign publications; third, due to the systematic character of the correspondence, the reader can see a kind of Samarin’s diary supplemented in the comments with extensive quotations from the letters to his younger brother Dmitry Fedorovich, with whom Samarin was especially close. In that way, Samarin’s letters to Countess Sollogub are important both as example of Russian intellectual history and as material on the history of Russian nobility daily life in the post-reform period that allows us to have a view of the life of one of the most well-known Russian families of that period.

scholarly journals Another outlook on Russia. Letters from the “Russian Archive”

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-196
Author(s):  
Andrzej Walicki ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
State University ◽  
Czeslaw Milosz ◽  
New Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Expert Assessments ◽  
Russian Intellectual History ◽  
Polish Scientist ◽  
Moscow State University

The article presents previously unpublished letters written by Andrzej Walicki (15.05.1930–21.08.2020), a worldly renowned Polish historian of Russian thought, to Professor Michael Maslin, the head of the Department of the History of Russian Philoso­phy at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Walicki’s letters (1997–2019) together with books, articles and other materials formed his gift to the abovementioned Department. Walicki himself referred to these materials as “my small Russian archive”. The letters are written in excellent Russian and require no additional revision or stylistic improvement. This publication retains the letters in their full originality including some phrases of Pol­ish origin. These unique epistles reveal Walicki’s individual creative worldview. The let­ters contain new information about the details of Walicki’s biography and his work in Poland, Russia, USA, Great Britain, Japan, Australia. The letters provide a unique per­spective on the “flow of ideas”, which was Walicki’s personal conception of understand­ing and interpretation of the Russian intellectual history from the Enligh­tenment through the Russian religious and philosophical Renaissance of the twentieth century. The letters discuss his interactions with Sergei Gessen, Isaiah Berlin, Leszhek Kolakowski, Czeslaw Milosz, George Kline, James Scanlan, Leonard Shapiro, Martin Malia, Richard Pipes, Nicholas Riasanovsky, James Billington etc. A special attention is paid to the critique of the Western and especially Polish Russophobia based on various superstitions and stereo­types about Russia as well on a lack of knowledge, various kinds of bias and blunders. Of considerable interest are Walitsky’s expert assessments of the ge­neral state of the scien­tific historiography of Russian philosophy, its fundamental diffe­rences from Soviet dog­matic Marxism, of which the Polish scientist was a consistent critic.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Randall
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Political World ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Constitutional Thought

The changed conception of conversation that emerged by c.1700 was about to expand its scope enormously – to the broad culture of Enlightenment Europe, to the fine arts, to philosophy and into the broad political world, both via the conception of public opinion and via the constitutional thought of James Madison (1751–1836). In the Enlightenment, the early modern conception of conversation would expand into a whole wing of Enlightenment thought. The intellectual history of the heirs of Cicero and Petrarch would become the practice of millions and the constitutional architecture of a great republic....

Indian Sex Life

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Durba Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Global History ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Indentured Servitude ◽  
History Of

During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals—philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics—deployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. This book shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society. The book reveals that deviant female sexuality was critical to debates about social progress and exclusion, caste domination, marriage, widowhood and inheritance, women's performance, the trafficking of girls, abortion and infanticide, industrial and domestic labor, indentured servitude, and ideologies about the dangers of Muslim sexuality. British authorities and Indian intellectuals used the concept of the prostitute to argue for the dramatic reorganization of modern Indian society around Hindu monogamy. The book demonstrates how the intellectual history of modern social thought is based in a dangerous civilizational logic built on the control and erasure of women's sexuality. This logic continues to hold sway in present-day South Asia and the postcolonial world. Reframing the prostitute as a concept, the book overturns long-established notions of how to write the history of modern social thought in colonial India, and opens up new approaches for the global history of sexuality.

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