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Arc of Utopia : The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution

by Lesley Chamberlain
Arc of Utopia : The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution - Thryft
Arc of Utopia : The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution - Thryft

Philosophy, Art, and Revolution in Russia

The Arc of Utopia explores the deep connection between philosophy, art, and the Russian Revolution. It highlights the influence of German philosophers on the French Revolution and their impact on Russian thinkers. The book provides a unique perspective on the events leading up to the Revolution and how they influenced the greatest minds of nineteenth-century Russia, including Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Bakunin. With its focus on the power of art and philosophy as a force for change, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between culture and revolution.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Arc of Utopia : The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution

by Lesley Chamberlain
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ISBN: 9781780238524
Authors: Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Date of Publication: 2017-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Philosophy
Related Topics: European History, Politics, Social Justice, History, Theory
Goodreads rating: 3.8
(rated by 5 readers)

Description

Although Lenin and his fellow revolutionaries never called themselves Utopians—believing strictly in a science of revolution, they considered Utopians to be merely dreamers—they were enormously inspired by the grand humanitarian aims of the French Revolution of 1789. Taking up this French revolutionary agenda and reinforcing it with German philosophy, Russians formed a beautiful vision in which an imaginary theology blended with a premier role for art.Arc of Utopia offers a fresh look at these German philosophical origins of the Russian Revolution. In the book, Lesley Chamberlain explains how influential German philosophers like Kant, Schiller, and Hegel were dazzled by contemporary events in Paris, and how this led a century later to an explosion of art and philosophy in the Russian streets, with a long-repressed people reinventing liberty, equality, and fraternity in their own cultural image. Chamberlain examines how some of the greatest Russian names of the nineteenth-century—from Alexander Herzen to Mikhail Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev to Fyodor Dostoevsky—defined their visions for Russia in relationship to their views on German enthusiasm for revolutionary France.With the centenary of the Russian Revolution approaching, Arc of Utopia is an important and timely revisioning of this tumultuous moment in history.
 

Philosophy, Art, and Revolution in Russia

The Arc of Utopia explores the deep connection between philosophy, art, and the Russian Revolution. It highlights the influence of German philosophers on the French Revolution and their impact on Russian thinkers. The book provides a unique perspective on the events leading up to the Revolution and how they influenced the greatest minds of nineteenth-century Russia, including Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Bakunin. With its focus on the power of art and philosophy as a force for change, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between culture and revolution.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.