Masaryk, T.G. - The Spirit of Russia (3 Volume Set)

New York / London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. / The Macmillan Company, 1968. 3 Volumes. Octavo. Bound in blue cloth in light blue jacket with purple titles. 480, 664, 331 pages. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- v. 1 -- The problems of Russian philosophy of history and philosophy of religion -- "Holy Russia," Moscow as third Rome -- Peter's reforms, the linking up of Russia with Europe -- Theocratic reaction after the French revolution, its defeat before Sevastopol, opening of the political and philosophical revolution (Catherine II-Nicholas I) -- Liberation of the peasantry in 1861, administrative reforms -- Renewal and continuation of the Nicolaitan regime after a brief liberal interlude, growth of the terrorist guerilla-revolution, Alexander II becomes its victim, accentuation of the theocratic reaction, counter-terrorism, its defeat in the war against Japan -- The first general revolutionary movement among the masses, the beginnings of the constitution, the counter-revolution -- Problems of the philosophy of history and of religion in Russia, a summary statement -- Sketches of Russian philosophy of history and philosophy of religion -- P.J. Caadaev, Catholic versus Orthodox theocracy -- Slavophilism, the Messianism of Orthodox theocracy, Slavophilism and Pan-Slavism -- Westernism, V.G. Belinskii -- The synthesis of westernism and Slavophilism, Apollon Grigor'ev -- Aleksander Herzen, philosophical and political radicalism -- M.A. Bakunin, revolutionary anarchism. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- v. 2 -- Realism and nihilism, Cernysevskii and Dobroljubov, Pisarev -- The so-called sociological subjectivists: Lavrov and Mihailovskii -- The theorists of the official theocracy, Pobedonoscev, Leont'ev -- Vladimir Solov'edv, religion as mysticism -- Modern socialism, Marxism and the social democracy, Marxism and the Narodnicestvo, the crisis within the Marxist movement, the religions problem, the social revolutionaries -- Modern anarchism, Kropotkin, anarchism and socialism -- The crisis in revolutionism, the religions question -- A summary: Democracy versus theocracy, the problem of revolution -- The epistemological problem of Russian philosophy -- The religions problem of Russian philosophy -- Democracy versus theocracy -- Democracy and revolution -- Holy Russia, the Russian monk and Feuerbach -- The world war and the revolution by Jan Slavik. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- v. 3 -- Dostoevsky -- The life of the great sinner: Atheism, nihilism, and the brothers Karamazov -- Russian universality: Dostoevsky's speech about Pushkin -- Dostoevsky's philosophy of history -- Russian nationalism -- Russian chauvinism -- The Russian character -- Russia and Europe -- Russian foreign relations -- Russian domestic politics -- The political development of Dostoevsky -- Dostoevsky and Russian literature -- Tolstoy -- Various writers -- The philosophy of French romanticism: Musset -- Titanism and Russian literature -- Lermontov -- Goncharov -- Turgenev -- Three decadents -- Gorky. VG. First volume jacket is clipped on the bottom front flap. jackets all have light wear around the edges.

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