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  • Third Wave

    The New Russian Poetry

    Third Wave gathers writings by contemporary Russian poets whose linguistic and conceptual experimentation represents what critics have termed a “third wave” of literary innovation. The work of this new generation of poets, having gained impetus and audience in the era of perestroika, reflects an experimental spirit that has not surfaced in the USSR since the avant-garde surge of the 1920s and the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ideas Against Ideocracy

    Non-Marxist Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953–1991)

    Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures (awarded by the Modern Languages Association)This groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost theoreticians of culture and scholars of Russian philosophy gives for the first time a systematic examination of the development of Russian philosophy during the late Soviet period.Countering the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Phoenix of Philosophy

    Russian Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953–1991)

    This groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost theoreticians of Russian literature, culture, and thought gives for the first time an extensive and detailed examination of the development of Russian thought during the late Soviet period. Countering the traditional view of an intellectual wilderness under the Soviet regime, Mikhail Epstein offers a systematic account of Russian thought in ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • In Marx's Shadow

    Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia

    Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under socialism, the volume examines Eastern Europe and Russian histories of intellectual movements ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory

    The sequel to the bestseller The Fourth Political Theory, expanding further on the fourth political theory. All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer ... Read more

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    “A skilled exploration” of why 6 notable 20th-century philosophers—from Martin Heidegger to Michel Foucault—succumbed to “a narcissistic embrace of totalitarian politics” (The Washington Post).European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose ... Read more

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