Four short links: intergalactic zombie agriculture!
… or Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov’s Philosophy of the Common Task. One comes across many extraordinary figures and ideas in Russian literature and intellectual history, but Fedorov stands out even in...
View ArticleLectures on Russian Thought: Introduction
Over the next two terms I will be publishing fortnightly lectures from my undergraduate course on Russian thought. I’ve been teaching the course for a few years solely as seminars, but am changing it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russian thought lecture 8: Vladimir Solov’ev: Godmanhood, Sophia, and erotic...
Readings: Solov’ev, “The Meaning of Love” Vladimir Solov’ev (1853-1900) Vladimir Solov’ev (1853-1900) is a very significant figure in the history of Russian thought as well as being a very prominent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russian thought lecture 9: Nikolai Fedorov and the utopia of the resurrected
Reading: “The Question of Brotherhood or Relatedness, and the Reasons for the Unbrotherly, Dis-Related, or Unpeaceful State of the World, and of the Means for the Restoration of Relatedness” (from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russian thought lecture 10: Utopias in Russian culture: of palaces and...
Reading: Dostoevsky, “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (1877) The Crystal Palace in Sydenham So we come to the end of this lecture series, and a slightly different focus than previously, as theoretical works...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top ten undead in Russian literature
“The dead are people too.” Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the influence on nineteenth-century Russian literature of romantic and gothic sensibilities, and of...
View Article
