Critical Theory in Russia and the West

ISBN-13: 9780415374750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str.

Alastair Renfrew;Galin Tihanov

Opis

The traditional view that the rise of western theoretical thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s is increasingly challenged. For a long time this was acceptable to Russian theorists and western specialists alike, because it directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western theory with the intellectual climate of post-revolutionary Russia. However, in recent years there has been a gradual retreat of theory from the high ground of the western humanities, and at the same time new work has emerged to suggest new unexpected parallels and to undermine others.

This book, with contributions from some of the most provocative specialists in this field, from Russia and the West, provides an in depth examination of the processes by which ideas have been exchanged between Russia and the West, and re-examines the significant transfers, cross-fertilisations and synergies of critical theory between Russia and the West. Although the book has a retrospective element, it focuses primarily on those tendencies which have the most significant contributions over the last century, and looks ahead at what is most likely to determine the dialogue between Russia and the West in the humanities going forward.

Recenzje

"Many chapters offer new perspectives on familiar phenomena, sketch new theoretical vistas or engage the reader in exciting theoretical dialogues. [This book] presents an important and gratifying attempt to place theory in the historical context and to bring it closer to the main humanistic and social concerns of the twenty-first century. It offers a thought-provoking and stimulating appraisal." - Marina Grishakova, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Tartu; Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 91, no. 2, April 2013).

Spis treści

Preface  1. The Resurrection of a Poetics Alastair Renfrew  2. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bakhtin on Art and Immortality Caryl Emerson and Inessa Medzhibovskaya  3. Innovation and Regression: Gustav Shpet’s Theoretical Concerns in the 1920s Galin Tihanov  4. ‘Once out of Nature’: The Organic Metaphor in Russian (and other) Theories of Language Thomas Seifrid  5. Roman Jakobson and Philology Michael Holquist  6. The Poetics and Politics of Estrangement: Viktor Shklovsky and Hannah Arendt Svetlana Boym  7. The Shaved Man’s Burden: The Russian Novel as a Romance of Internal Colonization Alexander Etkind  8. Feminism, Untranslated: Russian Gender Studies and Cross-cultural Transfer in the 1990s and Beyond Carol Adlam  9. From Post- to Proto-: Bakhtin and the Future of the Humanities Mikhail Epstein  10. Beyond the Text Vitalii Makhlin

O autorze

Alastair Renfrew is Reader in Russian and Director of Research in the School of Modern Languages at Durham University.

Galin Tihanov is Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History and Co-Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at The University of Manchester.