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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

Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery? -- Deconstructing imperial Moscow -- Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world -- Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism -- Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus -- The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south -- Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south

This article examines the articulation of sibiriak identity in the early 21st century. This time is particularly important because the current Russian government has made a point of curtailing the regional autonomy of the Yeltsin years. Drawing on regional news sources, Internet blogs, and writings by prominent Siberian public intellectuals, this article delineates a number of specifically Siberian voices and the concerns they discuss in the public sphere. It argues that contemporary Siberian identity differs significantly from stereotypical European Russian constructions of Siberian identity that equate simple goodness and honesty with the broad Siberian terrain. This material shows a diverse range of opinions and attitudes, a concerted effort to keep the Siberian heritage before the public eye, and a sustained discussion about the usable past. Focusing particularly on Evgenii Grishkovets's autobiographical novella, Rivers (Reki, 2005), this article examines the emergence of a post-Soviet discourse that reaches beyond Siberian stereotypes and openly expresses social and cultural problems encountered by Siberians.