Overview

Editors Joan Grossman and Ruth Rischin pose to their contributors an intriguing question: What happens when the ideas of a thinker like William James, who - despite his originality - was deeply rooted in American traditions, are refracted through a culture that draws on a heritage profoundly different from his own? Including studies of reception and interpretation of James's major works and analyses of the impact of his own philosophy on certain Russian writers and thinkers, William James in Russian Culture reveals striking parallels among and divergences between the intellectual and the spiritual realms.

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Author:   Joan Delaney Grossman ,  Ruth Rischin ,  Edith W. Clowes ,  Alexander Etkind
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780739105276

ISBN 10:   0739105272
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   04 March 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 William James: The European Connection Chapter 3 Adventures in Time and Space: Dostoevsky, William James, and the Perilous Journey to Conversion Chapter 4 What Men Live By: Belief and the Individual in Lev Tolstoy and William James Chapter 5 The Moral Equivalent of War: Violence in the Later Fiction of Lev Tolstoy Chapter 6 Phlosophers, Decadents, and Mystics: James's Russian readers in the 1890's Chapter 7 James and Viacheslav Ivanov at the Threshold of Consciousness Chapter 8 William James in the Moscow Psychological Society: Pragmatism, Pluralism, Personalism Chapter 9 Lev Shestov's James: A Knight of Free Creativity Chapter 10 James and Konovalov: The Varieties of Religious Experience and Russian Theology Between Revolutions Chapter 11 Gorky and God-Building Chapter 12 James and Vocabularies of Contemporary Russian Spirituality Chapter 13 Afterword: William James in Contexts, Plural

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This intriguing collection of essays examines how William James' philosophy has been received in Russia. Its primary focus is the so-called 'silver age' of Russian culture in the early 1900s, when Russian interest in James was at its peak, though there is occasional discussion of the Soviet era, during which James's work was reviled as the epitome of American bourgeois decadence, and a chapter devoted to his philosophy in post-Soviet thought .there is much here for students of Russian Intellectual history to admire .many students of philosophy would profit from dipping into it. It helps reveal the breadth of James' vision and thereby stands as a corrective to those who represent the pragmatist tradition as a kind of antidote to philosophy. The book is a valuable, if eccentric, contribution to the process of retrieving the neglected philosophical culture of pre-revolutionary Russia.--David Bakhurst

Author Information

Joan Delaney Grossman is Professor Emerita in the Department of Slavic languages and Literatures at the University of California-Berkeley. Ruth Rischin is the author of studies of the brothers Pavel and Semyon Yushkevich.

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