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AbstractThese are my comments and responses to questions and comments by my colleagues at the Handbook symposium that took place last fall.

AbstractThis review discusses an important recent book by Galin Tihanov, the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London.

Lev Tolstoi, in his dunking about life, death, freedom, and immortality, drew significandy on the German philosophical tradition from Leibniz and Moses Mendelssohn to Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Friedrich Schleiermacher, as Lina Steiner argues in this article. Herder, who tried to salvage rationalism by getting away from the mechanistic metaphysics of the French Enlightenment and reintroducing the teleological explanation of nature, was a particularly important influence on Tolstoi. Herder's view of life, including both individual life and the life of community, as organic Bildung underlay the artistic conception ofWar and Peace, Tolstoi's first major fictional narrative. Tolstoi continued to develop this organicist paradigm in his later sociopolitical, religious, and aesthietic writings.

Among the topics in Slavic literary scholarship that have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, the study of Russian modernism, also known as the Silver Age, has been one of the indisputable leaders. The groundwork for the canonization of the Silver Age was laid in the postwar Soviet Union, where young poets like Andrei Voznesenskii and Joseph Brodsky made pilgrimages to Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova. The allure of the Silver Age was increasingly felt in official Soviet culture as well. Just as Vladimir Maiakovskii's canonical status had earlier sanctioned the limited study of other futurists, the official recognition of Aleksandr Blok and Valerii Briusov as the bards of the October revolution provided the cover for scholars in the 1970s and 1980s to undertake a massive excavation of symbolist culture. After the beginning of perestroika, survivors from the Silver Age, from philosopher Aleksei Losev to émigré poet Irina Odoevtseva, came to be revered as emissaries from a lost, better world.

Citizen participation has become an important political strategy. A case study of the Barranquilla land-use plan employing Fung and Wright's theories on countervailing power reveals that the citizen participation promoted to comply with legal requirements was a failure because it was manipulated by the dominant public actor. In societies such as that of Barranquilla, which employs traditional modes of politics, there is little chance of fostering successful participatory processes because there is no countervailing power to offset the established one. The violent context that surrounds the political sphere, low confidence in state institutions, and the convergence of economic and political power prevent the creation of strong and independent countervailing powers.La participación ciudadana se ha convertido en una importante estrategia política. El estudio de caso del plan de usos de terrenos de Barranquilla a través del prisma de las teorías de Fung y Wright sobre el poder compensatorio revela que la participación ciudadana promovida para cumplir con los requisitos legales fue un fracaso porque fue manipulada por el actor público dominante. En sociedades como la de Barranquilla, con sus modos tradicionales de la política, hay pocas posibilidades de fomentar procesos de participación exitosos porque no hay un poder compensatorio que contrarreste el poder establecido. El contexto violento que envuelve la esfera política, la poca confianza en las instituciones estatales y la convergencia del poder económico con el poder social impiden la creación de poderes compensatorios fuertes e independientes.

Intro -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: On Russian Thought and Intellectual Tradition -- Historical Evolution -- The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought: Aim, Scope, and Structure -- Bibliography -- Part I: Russian Philosophical Thought -- Chapter 2: Politics and Enlightenment in Russia -- General Considerations: Enlightenment in Europe and Russia -- Enlightenment Under Catherine II: Early Years -- Enlightenment Under Catherine II: The Encounter with Diderot -- Three Russian Responses to Catherine's Enlightenment Program -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Russian Religious Philosophy: The Nature of the Phenomenon, Its Path, and Its Afterlife -- Preamble: Some Why's and What's -- The Birth of Russian Philosophical Discourse as an Epistemological Event -- Characterization of the Newborn Phenomenon -- Religious Thought in Diaspora as a Discursive Modulation -- Post-Soviet Philosophy: The Palingenesis? The Reverse Modulation? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Russian Political Philosophy: Between Autocracy and Revolution -- Introduction -- Dialectics and Destruction (1825-1881) -- From Repression to Revolution (1881-1921) -- Soviet Union and Emigration (1922-1956) -- Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Period (1956-2018) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Between Aristocratism and Artistry: Two Centuries of the Revolutionary Paradigm in Russia -- Introduction -- The Personification Method of Comprehending History -- Pointing the Way to Artistry: The Aristocrat, Revolutionary, and Writer Alexander Herzen -- The Theatricality of Revolution and the Bohemian -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Kant and Kantianism in Russia: A Historical Overview -- Introduction -- The Main Stages of Kant's Reception in Russia.