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G. K. Chesterton introduced a 1905 English translation of Maxim Gorky’s Creatures That Once Were ... more G. K. Chesterton introduced a 1905 English translation of Maxim Gorky’s Creatures That Once Were Men (Byvshie liudi) by claiming that Gorky expressed “a sense of the strangeness and essential value of the human being” (1906, xiii). This is high praise from the English religious thinker whose Thomistic view of human personhood differed quite radically from Gorky’s own. It reflects the degree to which questions of human value and personhood were at the forefront of intellectual speculation during that prewar period of accelerated industrialization, intensifying, as it did, the social questions con c omitant with the industrial age. Gorky certainly offered his own answer to the grand philosophical questions of his day, as had the great Russian writers before him. However, Gorky was not a systematic thinker and often vacillated on issues that demanded philosophical nuance, especially during his brief Godbuilding period, 1 in which he increasingly saw himself as a respondent to the relig...
While the Russian Orthodox Church provided a distinct and oppositional pole to Lenin’s atheistic ... more While the Russian Orthodox Church provided a distinct and oppositional pole to Lenin’s atheistic materialism, the tension between religion and modernity played itself out more ambiguously among Russian intelligentsia circles. God-seekers, often adherents of what was at the time called the ‘New Religious Consciousness’ and what would later be reconstituted as the ‘Russian Religious Renaissance’, moved from secular vantage points to dialogue with, and (for some) acceptance of, a religious worldview. Meanwhile, a variety of Bolshevik luminaries, including Alexander Bogdanov, Anatolii Lunacharskii, and V. A. Rudnev (aka Bazarov), collected at Maksim Gor’kii’s villa on Capri and came to represent a more decidedly atheistic perspective. It employed heavy religious symbolism and reinterpretation and became known as God-building. These two perspectives emerged as competing interpretations of the interplay between religion and modernity before the revolution. Only later, during the post-revo...
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collectio... more UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Secularism and its discontents: Religion and modernity through the eyes of Maxim Gorky and Vasily Rozanov (Russia). ...
Nel Grillaert. What the God-seekers Found in Nietzsche: The Reception of Nietzsche's Ubermens... more Nel Grillaert. What the God-seekers Found in Nietzsche: The Reception of Nietzsche's Ubermensch by the Philosophers of the Russian Religious Renaissance. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. x, 282 pp. Bibliography. Index. $87.00, paper.The title of Nel Grillaert's recent re-visitation of Nietzsche's influence in pre-revolutionary Russia is both an accurate and deceptive statement of the book's intent. Her monograph does analyze the ways in which Russia's religious philosophers appropriated Nietzsche, but the title fails to mention the dominant personality in this work - Dostoevskii. Indeed, her appraisal of Nietzsche's reception in Russia echoes an article written by the Yugoslav dissident Mihajlo Mihajlov in Bernice Rosenthal's Nietzsche in Russia entitled, "The Great Catalyzer: Nietzsche and Russian Neo-Idealism," in which Mihajlov argues that the unique characteristic of Nietzsche's reception in...
G. K. Chesterton introduced a 1905 English translation of Maxim Gorky’s Creatures That Once Were ... more G. K. Chesterton introduced a 1905 English translation of Maxim Gorky’s Creatures That Once Were Men (Byvshie liudi) by claiming that Gorky expressed “a sense of the strangeness and essential value of the human being” (1906, xiii). This is high praise from the English religious thinker whose Thomistic view of human personhood differed quite radically from Gorky’s own. It reflects the degree to which questions of human value and personhood were at the forefront of intellectual speculation during that prewar period of accelerated industrialization, intensifying, as it did, the social questions con c omitant with the industrial age. Gorky certainly offered his own answer to the grand philosophical questions of his day, as had the great Russian writers before him. However, Gorky was not a systematic thinker and often vacillated on issues that demanded philosophical nuance, especially during his brief Godbuilding period, 1 in which he increasingly saw himself as a respondent to the relig...
While the Russian Orthodox Church provided a distinct and oppositional pole to Lenin’s atheistic ... more While the Russian Orthodox Church provided a distinct and oppositional pole to Lenin’s atheistic materialism, the tension between religion and modernity played itself out more ambiguously among Russian intelligentsia circles. God-seekers, often adherents of what was at the time called the ‘New Religious Consciousness’ and what would later be reconstituted as the ‘Russian Religious Renaissance’, moved from secular vantage points to dialogue with, and (for some) acceptance of, a religious worldview. Meanwhile, a variety of Bolshevik luminaries, including Alexander Bogdanov, Anatolii Lunacharskii, and V. A. Rudnev (aka Bazarov), collected at Maksim Gor’kii’s villa on Capri and came to represent a more decidedly atheistic perspective. It employed heavy religious symbolism and reinterpretation and became known as God-building. These two perspectives emerged as competing interpretations of the interplay between religion and modernity before the revolution. Only later, during the post-revo...
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collectio... more UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Secularism and its discontents: Religion and modernity through the eyes of Maxim Gorky and Vasily Rozanov (Russia). ...
Nel Grillaert. What the God-seekers Found in Nietzsche: The Reception of Nietzsche's Ubermens... more Nel Grillaert. What the God-seekers Found in Nietzsche: The Reception of Nietzsche's Ubermensch by the Philosophers of the Russian Religious Renaissance. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. x, 282 pp. Bibliography. Index. $87.00, paper.The title of Nel Grillaert's recent re-visitation of Nietzsche's influence in pre-revolutionary Russia is both an accurate and deceptive statement of the book's intent. Her monograph does analyze the ways in which Russia's religious philosophers appropriated Nietzsche, but the title fails to mention the dominant personality in this work - Dostoevskii. Indeed, her appraisal of Nietzsche's reception in Russia echoes an article written by the Yugoslav dissident Mihajlo Mihajlov in Bernice Rosenthal's Nietzsche in Russia entitled, "The Great Catalyzer: Nietzsche and Russian Neo-Idealism," in which Mihajlov argues that the unique characteristic of Nietzsche's reception in...