The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought

1 Introduction: On Russian Thought and Intellectual Tradition

Part I Russian Philosophical Thought

2 Politics and Enlightenment in Russia

3 Russian Religious Philosophy: The Nature of the Phenomenon, Its Path, and Its Afterlife4 Russian Political Philosophy: Between Autocracy and Revolution



5 Between Aristocratism and Artistry: Two Centuries of the Revolutionary Paradigm in Russia

6 Kant and Kantianism in Russia: A Historical Overview

7 Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Russia

8 Vladimir Solovyov: Philosophy as Systemic Unity9 Natural Sciences and the Radical Intelligentsia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries



10 Lev Shestov's Philosophy of Freedom

11 Nikolai Berdyaev's Philosophy of Creativity as a Revolt Against the Modern Worldview

12 Lenin and His Controversy over Philosophy: On the Philosophical Significance of Materialism and

Empiriocriticism

13 Russian Marxism and Its Philosophy: From Theory to Ideology

14 Between East and West: Russian Identity in the Émigré Writings of Ilya Fondaminsky and Semyon Portugeis

15 Ivan A. Ilyin: Russia's "Non-Hegelian" Hegelian

16 Gustav Shpet's Path Through Phenomenology to Philosophy of Language

17 Evald Ilyenkov: Philosophy as the Science of Thought

18 The "Men of the Sixties": Philosophy as a Social Phenomenon

19 The Activity Approach in Late Soviet Philosophy20 A Return to Tradition: The Epistemological Style in Russia's Post-Soviet Philosophy



Part II Philosophy in Dialogue with Literature and Art

21 The Russian Novel as a Medium of Moral Reflection in the Long Nineteenth Century

22 Nikolai Gogol, Symbolic Geography, and the Invention of the Russian Provinces

23 Belinsky and the Sociality of Reason

24 The Vocations of Nikolai Grot and the Tasks of Russian

Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA, and editor-in-chief of the journals Studies in East European Thought and Russian Studies in Philosophy.

Michael N. Forster is Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-director of the International Center for Philosophy, North Rhine Westphalia at Bonn University, Germany.

Lina Steiner is a Research Associate at the International Center for Philosophy, North Rhine Westphalia and a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Literature at Bonn University, Germany.