Reading: Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) This week we turn to the main response to the Nihilists’ ideas of rational egoism and social reorganization, in the form of Dostoevsky’s 1864 novel, Notes from Underground. Dostoevsky is the only writer whose fictional texts we are examining in any detail, but I think this is justified in […]
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Russian thought lecture 5: Dostoevsky and the anti-rationalist argument
Posted by Sarah Young on December 10, 2012
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/12/10/russian-thought-lecture-5-dostoevsky-and-the-anti-rationalist-argument/
Russian thought lecture 4: Nihilism and the birth of Russian radicalism: from science to art
Readings: Nikolai Chernyshevsky, extracts from “The Anthropological Principle in Philosophy” (1860); Dmitry Pisarev, “The Realists” (1864) and “The Thinking Proletariat” (1865) We’re now moving away from the debate that arose initially out of Chaadaev’s “First Philosophical Letter” and dominated Russian intellectual life in the 1830s and 1840s. In the next generation a different set of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 28, 2012
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/11/28/russian-thought-lecture-4-nihilism-and-the-birth-of-russian-radicalism-from-science-to-art/
The games Russian boys play
Whilst doing some research for my Russians in London series (to be resumed at some unspecified point), I came across a truly unexpected document from the pages of Chums, a middle-class boys’ weekly magazine published between 1892 and 1941, later associated with the scout movement, but in its early years probably most notable for its […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 16, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/10/16/the-games-russian-boys-play/