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Title In Marx's shadow : knowledge, power, and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia / edited by Costica Bradatan and Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 296 pages)
Contents The sickle, the hammer, and the typewriter -- Ideas against ideocracy: the Platonic drama of Russian thought / Mikhail Epstein -- Asking for more: finding utopia in the critical sociology of the Budapest school and the Praxis movement / Jeffrey Murer -- Aesthetics: a modus vivendi in Eastern Europe? / Letitia Guran -- Changing perceptions of Pavel Florensky in Russian and Soviet scholarship / Clemena Antonova -- Heretics -- The totalitarian languages of utopia and dystopia: Fidelius and Havel / Veronika Tuckerová -- Philosophy and martyrdom: the case of Patočka / Costica Bradatan -- Anticommunist orientalism: shifting boundaries of Europe in dissident writing / Natasa Kovacevic -- In search of a (new) mission -- Somatic nationalism: theorizing post-Soviet ethnicity in Russia / Serguei Alex. Oushakine -- Balkanism and postcolonilaism, or, On the beauty of the airplane view / Maria Todorova -- Anxious intellectuals: framing the nation as a class in Belarus / Elena Gapova -- Reinventing hope -- The demise of Leninism and the future of liberal values / Vladimir Tismaneanu -- "Politics of authenticity" and/or civil society / Ivars Ijabs -- Mihai Șora: a philosopher of dialogue and hope / Aurelian Crăiuțu
Summary The volume draws attention to the unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under the communist regime. It demonstrates how various bodies of knowledge (philosophical, social, political, aesthetic, even theological) were produced, disseminated and used for a wide variety of purposes: from openly justifying dominant political views to framing oppositional and non-official discourses and practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Intellectuals -- Europe, Eastern
Intellectuals -- Soviet Union
Intellectuals -- Russia (Federation)
Power (Social sciences) -- Europe, Eastern
Power (Social sciences) -- Soviet Union
Power (Social sciences) -- Russia (Federation)
Intellectuals -- Russia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
Intellectual life
Intellectuals
Power (Social sciences)
Intellektuella -- Östeuropa.
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003680
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125824
Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005570
Subject Eastern Europe
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union
Sovjetunionen -- intellektuellt liv.
Form Electronic book
Author Brădățan, Costică
Ushakin, S. (Sergeĭ), 1966-
LC no. 2009048380
ISBN 9780739136263
0739136267
1282494600
9781282494602
9786612494604
6612494603