Critical Theory in Russia and the West by Renfrew, Alastair -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies Contents Contributors Preface Acknowledgements

Chapter 4 Chapter 6 Note on transliteration

1 The resurrection of a poetics

One Two Three Four Conclusion Notes Bibliography

2 Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bakhtin on art and immortality

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky ‘test’ eternal life and its relation to beauty The beauty of Christ and the confi rmation of the world Co-experiencing as a substitute for the sublime Notes References

3 Innovation and regression

Shpet’s life and intellectual career Shpet and the study of literature in the Moscow Linguistic Circle and at GAKhN A backward journey to aesthetics: Shpet’s position in the context of the 1920s Shpet’s theatre theory Conclusion Notes References

4 ‘Once out of nature’

Notes References

5 Roman Jakobson and philology

Notes References

6 The poetics and politics of estrangement

Shklovsky’s ‘monument to liberty’: Estrangement as the ‘third way’ Hannah Arendt: Estrangement from the world and estrangement for the world De-ideologization and its discontents: A Post-Soviet perspective Notes References

7 The shaved man’s burden

One Two Three Four Five Conclusion Notes References

8 Feminism, untranslated

One Two Three Notes Bibliography

9 From post- to proto-

From ‘post-’ to ‘proto-’ From multicultural to transcultural Translation and interlation. Stereotextuality From interpretation to a new performativity. Textoids and retextualizations The rehumanization of the humanities Scholarship and inventorship. Techno-humanities Dialogic cognition and the fate of the university Conclusion. The interrogativity of the humanities Notes References Glossary

10 Beyond the text

The end of the conversation (Not) Coming to consciousness The sleep of all paradigms The catastrophe of the humanities Dead end A word about contemporary philosophy The worse, the better Notes References

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