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The Russian Longing for Transcendence

The Russian Longing for Transcendence The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) . By Kate Holland . Pp. 266, Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2013 , $42.75. Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject . By Daphna Erdinast‐Vulcan . Pp. 260, Stanford , Stanford University Press , 2013 , $20.55. It is a truism that, whether under communism or the tsars' autocracy, Russian history has been marked by political absolutism. It is less of a truism – indeed it is a counter‐intuitive proposition – that this circumstance has provided ample space for the elaboration of diverse models of national and individual identity. In a land where the individual could not govern, he had no obligation to become homogeneous with others, to divest himself of particularities in order to merge with the general will that Rousseau prescribed for societies of sovereign peoples. The Russian experience of self underwent a particularly creative transformation during the nineteenth century, when the Russian intelligentsia was forming and Russia's encounter with Western ideas triggered an identity crisis and a widespread sense of social breakdown. This is the crisis http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

The Russian Longing for Transcendence

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The Heythrop Journal , Volume 56 (2) – Mar 1, 2015
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The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) . By Kate Holland . Pp. 266, Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2013 , $42.75. Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject . By Daphna Erdinast‐Vulcan . Pp. 260, Stanford , Stanford University Press , 2013 , $20.55. It is a truism that, whether under communism or the tsars' autocracy, Russian history has been marked by political absolutism. It is less of a truism – indeed it is a counter‐intuitive proposition – that this circumstance has provided ample space for the elaboration of diverse models of national and individual identity. In a land where the individual could not govern, he had no obligation to become homogeneous with others, to divest himself of particularities in order to merge with the general will that Rousseau prescribed for societies of sovereign peoples. The Russian experience of self underwent a particularly creative transformation during the nineteenth century, when the Russian intelligentsia was forming and Russia's encounter with Western ideas triggered an identity crisis and a widespread sense of social breakdown. This is the crisis

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