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Reformulating Russia provides a thorough narratological and contextual analysis of Russian émigré historiography as it appears in Georgii Fedotov’s Saints of Ancient Russia, Georgii Florovskii’s The Ways of Russian Theology, Nikolai Berdiaev’s The Russian Idea and Vasilii Zenkovskii’s History of Russian Philosophy.

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Author:   Kåre Johan Mjør ,  Kare Johan Mjr ,  K Re Johan Mj R
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.420kg
ISBN:  

9789004192867

ISBN 10:   9004192867
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   06 May 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Transliterations and Abbreviations Introduction Texts and Contexts Historiography and Narrativity Research PART ONE - CONTEXTS Chapter One Russia Abroad The Émigré Community Exile as Mission Chapter Two Writing Russian History Varieties of Intellectual History Culture and Cultural History Historiography of Imperial Russia PART TWO - READINGS Chapter Three Georgii Fedotov and the Saints of Ancient Russia Culture, Creativity, Tragedy Resurrecting Russian Sanctity Configuring Russian Holiness Fedotov’s Ancient and Holy Russia Detail and Meaning in Russian Holiness The Workers in the Vineyard From Negative to Positive Liberty Difference and Opposition Fedotov’s Tragedy Fedotov’s Historicism Chapter Four Georgii Florovskii and the Ways of Russian Theology Emigration, Eurasianism and Orthodoxy Florovskii’s Prophetic Eschatology The Pseudomorphosis of Russian Thought Gradual Recovery and New Excitements Florovskii’s Theology of Creativity The Ascetic Way Home Chapter Five Nikolai Berdiaev and the Russian Idea Revolution and Exile Berdiaev’s Paradoxes and Inconsistencies The Russian Idea or the Idea of Russia? Chaotic Essentialism Russians as Schismatics The Martyrology of the Intelligentsia Russian Ideas as Ideas of Russia Berdiaev’s Messianism Chapter Six Vasilii Zenkovskii and the History of Russian Philosophy Russia and Europe The Historiography of Philosophy Reframing Russian Philosophy Philosophy and its Soil Philosophy as a System Vladimir Solovev as a Systematic Philosopher The Systematic Design and its Content The Dialectics of History Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

Reviews

""Reformulating Russia is designed for specialists in Russian intellectual history. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies. A well-conceived and well-researched volume."" Paul Valliere, Butler University Indianapolis, in Slavic Review 72.1, pp. 181-182 ""An original feature of Mjør's work is the emphasis he places on narrative as a cognitive tool for constructing a meaningful and coherent past. Mjør contends that in order to explore how histroy is conceived, it is as important to study the narrative, the rhetoric and form, as it is to analyze teh content."" Frances Nethercott, St Andrews, in Kritika 15.2, pp 421-439 ""Mjør's Reformulating Russia is a provocative, unique effort to place four unconventional voices into first-wave Russian émigré historiography. The book is a welcome invitation to reconsider whose analyses defined history in Russia Abroad and how these analyses shifted after decades of Soviet power."" Krista Sigler, Cincinnati, in East Central Europe 41.1, pp 123-126

Reformulating Russia is designed for specialists in Russian intellectual history. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies. A well-conceived and well-researched volume. Paul Valliere, Butler University Indianapolis, in Slavic Review 72.1, pp. 181-182 An original feature of Mjor's work is the emphasis he places on narrative as a cognitive tool for constructing a meaningful and coherent past. Mjor contends that in order to explore how histroy is conceived, it is as important to study the narrative, the rhetoric and form, as it is to analyze teh content. Frances Nethercott, St Andrews, in Kritika 15.2, pp 421-439 Mjor's Reformulating Russia is a provocative, unique effort to place four unconventional voices into first-wave Russian emigre historiography. The book is a welcome invitation to reconsider whose analyses defined history in Russia Abroad and how these analyses shifted after decades of Soviet power. Krista Sigler, Cincinnati, in East Central Europe 41.1, pp 123-126

Author Information

Kåre Johan Mjør (b. 1973) holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway. The author of Desire, Death, and Imitation: Narrative Patterns in the Late Tolstoy (Slavica Bergensia 4), he has also published articles on Russian imperial historiography and Russian post-Soviet intellectual culture.

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