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Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison

Development and Change of Outlook from the 19th to the 20th Century

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  1. W. J. Gavin
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  2. T. J. Blakeley
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Part of the book series: Sovietica (SOVA, volume 38)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. The Cultural Beginnings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Importance of Ambiguity in Russian and American Culture

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 3-17

    3. Chaadayev and Emerson — Two Mystical Pragmatists

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 18-28

    4. Herzen and James: Freedom as Radical

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 29-43

    5. Royce and Khomyakov on Community as Process

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 44-51

    6. Art vs. Science in Dewey and Chernyshevsky

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 52-64

    7. Underlying Themes and the Present Cultural Context

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 65-75

  3. Contemporary Soviet Reactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Marxist-Leninist Philosophy and Social History

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 79-85

    3. Soviet Reaction to Some Nineteenth-Century Philosophers

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 86-93

    4. Underlying Themes in Contemporary Marxist-Leninist Philosophy

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 94-100

    5. Epilogue

      • W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley
      Pages 101-102

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 101-116
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison

  • Book Subtitle: Development and Change of Outlook from the 19th to the 20th Century

  • Authors: W. J. Gavin, T. J. Blakeley

  • Series Title: Sovietica

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1514-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1976

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0749-9Published: 31 December 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1516-5Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1514-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0561-2551

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 116

  • Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies

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