In Marx's shadow
Subtitle: knowledge, power, and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia
By: edited by Costica Bradatan and Serguei Alex Oushakine.
Contributors: Brădățan, Costică.; Ushakin, S. 1966-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739136249; 9780739136263
Subjects: Intellectuals -- Europe, Eastern; Intellectuals -- Soviet Union; Intellectuals -- Russia (Federation); Power (Social sciences) -- Europe, Eastern; Power (Social sciences) -- Soviet Union; Power (Social sciences) -- Russia (Federation); Europe, Eastern -- Intellectual life; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life; Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The sickle, the hammer, and the typewriter; title: Ideas against ideocracy : the Platonic drama of Russian thought / Mikhail Epstein; title: Asking for more : finding utopia in the critical sociology of the Budapest school and the Praxis movement / Jeffrey Murer; title: Aesthetics : a modus vivendi in East Central Europe? / Letitia Guran; title: Changing perceptions of Pavel Florensky in Russian and Soviet scholarship / Clemena Antonova; title: pt. 2. Heretics; title: The totalitarian languages of utopia and dystopia : Fidelius and Havel / Veronika Tuckerova; title: Martyrdom and philosophy : the case of Patočka / Costica Bradatan; title: Anti-communist orientalism : shifting boundaries of Europe in dissident writing / Natasa Kovacevic; title: pt. 3. In search of a (new) mission; title: Vitality rediscovered : theorizing post-Soviet ethnicity in Russia / Serguei Oushakine; title: Balkanism and postcolonilaism, or, On the beauty of the airplane view / Maria Todorova; title: Anxious intellectuals : framing the nation as a class in Belarus / Elena Gapova; title: pt. 4. Reinventing hope; title: The demise of Leninism and the future of liberal values / Vladimir Tismaneanu; title: "Politics of authenticity" and/or civil society / Ivars Ijabs; title: Mihai Șora : a philosopher of dialogue and hope / Aurelian Craiutu.