ISBN:
9789401015141
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (132p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Sovietica, Publications and Monographs of the Institute of East-European Studies at the University of Fribourg / Switzerland and the Center for East Europe, Russia and Asia at Boston College and the Seminar for Political Theory and Philosophy at the University of Munich 38
Series Statement:
Sovietica 38
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Keywords:
Regional planning
;
Ethnology.
;
Culture.
Abstract:
I: The Cultural Beginnings -- I / The Importance of Ambiguity in Russian and American Culture -- II / Chaadayev and Emerson — Two Mystical Pragmatists -- III / Herzen and James: Freedom as Radical -- IV / Royce and Khomyakov on Community as Process -- V / Art vs. Science in Dewey and Chernyshevsky -- VI / Underlying Themes and the Present Cultural Context -- II: Contemporary Soviet Reactions -- VII / Marxist-Leninist Philosophy and Social History -- VIII / Soviet Reaction to Some Nineteenth-Century Philosophers -- IX / Underlying Themes in Contemporary Marxist-Leninist Philosophy -- Epilogue: Final Thoughts -- Notes -- Index of Names and Titles.
Abstract:
In this year of bicentennial celebration, there will no doubt take place several cultural analyses of the American tradition. This is only as it should be, for without an extensive, broad-based inquiry into where we have come from, we shall surely not foresee where we might go. Nonetheless, most cultural analyses of the American context suffer from a common fault - the lack of a different context to use for purposes of comparison. True, American values and ideals were partly inherited from the European tradition. But that tradition is in many ways an inadequate mode of comparison. Without going too far afield, let us note two points: first, European culture was the proud inheritor of the Renaissance tradition, and, going back still further, of classical culture; second, the European countries are compact. Their land masses are such that the notion of "frontier" simply would not have arisen in the same way as it did in America. On the other side of the globe, however, there does exist a country capable of serving as a suitable mirror. We speak, of course, of Russia. That country also came relatively late onto the cultural horizon, and was not privy to the Renaissance tradition. Furthermore, her land mass is such as to be "experi mentally infmite" in character - not unlike the American frontier. It is hoped that much can be leamed about the present cultural context by com paring the two countries in their youthful stages.
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-010-1514-1
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