Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought

Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA, and editor-in-chief of the journals Studies in East European Thought and Russian Studies in Philosophy.Michael N. Forster is Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-director of the International Center for Philosophy, North Rhine Westphalia at Bonn University, Germany.Lina Steiner is a Research Associate at the International Center for Philosophy, North Rhine Westphalia and a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Literature at Bonn University, Germany.

• 1. Introduction: On Russian Thought and Intellectual Tradition.- 2. Politics and Enlightenment in Russia.- 3. Russian Religious Philosophy: The Nature of the Phenomenon, Its Path, and Its Afterlife.- 4. Russian Political Philosophy: Between Autocracy and Revolution.- 5. Between Aristocratism and Artistry: Two Centuries of the Revolutionary Paradigm in Russia.- 6. Kant and Kantianism in Russia: a Historical Overview.- 7. Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Russia.- 8. Vladimir Solovyov: Philosophy as Systemic Unity.- 9. Natural Sciences and the Radical Intelligentsia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.- 10. Lev Shestov’s Philosophy of Freedom.- 11. Nikolai Berdyaev’s Philosophy of Creativity as a Revolt against the Modern Worldview.- 12. Lenin and His Controversy over Philosophy: On the Philosophical Significance of Materialism and Empiriocriticism.- 13. Russian Marxism and its Philosophy: From Theory to Ideology.- 14.  Between East and West:Russian Identity in the Émigré Writings of Ilya Fondaminsky and Semyon Portugeis.- 15.  Ivan A. Ilyin: Russia’s “Non-Hegelian” Hegelian.- 16. Gustav Shpet’s Path Through Phenomenology to Philosophy of Language.- 17. Evald Ilyenkov: Philosophy as the Science of Thought.- 18. The “Men of the Sixties”: Philosophy as a Social Phenomenon.- 19. The Activity Approach in Late Soviet Philosophy.- 20. A Return to Tradition: The Epistemological Style in Russia’s Post-Soviet Philosophy.- 21. The Russian Novel as a Medium of Moral Reflection in The Long Nineteenth Century.- 22. Nikolai Gogol, Symbolic Geography, and the Invention of the Russian Provinces.- 23. Belinsky and the Sociality of Reason.- 24. The Vocations of Nikolai Grot and the Tasks of Russian Philosophy .- 25. Chernyshevsky and Dostoevsky: Together in Opposition.- 26. Tolstoy’s Philosophy of Life.- 27. “Teaching of Life”: Tolstoy’s Moral-Philosophical Aesthetics.- 28. Osip Mandelstam’s Poetic Practice and Theory and Pavel Florensky’s Philosophical Contexts.- 29. Future in the Past: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Thought between Heritage and Reception.- 30. Across Time and Language: Bakhtin, Translation, World Literature.- 31. Alexei F. Losev’s Mythology of Music as a Development of the Hermeneutics and Sociology of Music.- 32. The Young Marx and the Tribulations of Soviet Marxist-Leninist Aesthetics.- 33. Mikhail Sholokhov, Andrei Platonov, and Varlam Shalamov: The Road to Hell in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature.- 34. Yuri Lotman and the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics: Contemporary Epistemic and Social Contexts.- 35. Art as an Instrument of Philosophy.- 36. Russian Thought and Russian Thinkers.