Fiction's Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy
Cover -- FICTIỌN'S OVERCỌAT -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One THE DISPLACEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY (1820s-1860s) -- 1. The Possibility of a Russian Philosophy: Language and Reader in a New Philosophical Culture (1820s-1830s) -- 2. Competing Discourses: Philosophy Marginalized -- 3· The Parting of the Ways: Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky, and the Seeds of Russian Philosophical Discourse -- Part Two THE BIRTH OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY (1870s-1920s) -- 4· Philosophical Language between Revelation and Reason: Solovyov's Search for Total Unity -- 5· Philosophy as Tragedy: Shestov and His Russian Audience -- 6. Philosophy in the Breach: Rozanov's Philosophical Roguery and the Destruction of Civil Discourse -- 7· Philosophy as Epic Drama: Berdiaev's Philosophy of the Creative Act -- Part Three THE SURVIVAL OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE ( 1920s-1950s) -- 8. Image and Concept: Losev's "Great Synthesis of Higher Knowledge" and the Tragedy of Philosophy -- 9· The Matter of Philosophy: Dialectical Materialism and Platonov's Quest after Questioning -- 10. "Sheer Philosophy" and "Vegetative Thinking": Pasternak's Suspension and Preservation of Philosophy -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Generations and Networks of Russian Philosophy -- Index