Views from the other shore
Subtitle: essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin
By: Aileen M. Kelly.
Series: Russian literature and thought
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Political and social views; Bakhtin, M. M. 1895-1975; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917
Description: "Aileen M. Kelly examines a humanist strand of Russian thought that has until now received little notice or understanding. She finds in the writings of Aleksandr Herzen, Anton Chekhov, and Mikhail Bakhtin a pioneering emphasis on the role of chance and contingency in nature and history. Their writing on this theme, she argues, establishes the importance of these humanists in the development of European thought."--BOOK JACKET.

"She shows how the view of freedom that Herzen shared with Chekhov and Bakhtin provides an antidote both to traditional absolutes and to the boundless relativism of much postmodern theory. As such it offers an answer to the question now besetting intellectuals in Russia and the West: how to ground morality after the collapse of ideological certainties."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-254) index.