[lit-ideas] Re: The History of Analytic Philosophy in Russia
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:39:15 -0230
Russia has not produced any philosophy as I understand the discipline.
Philosophy, understood as a univocal term, is a transcendental form of inquiry.
Russian writers typically attempt to fuse "philosophical" considerations with
literary (aesthetic) themes. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov (no, not the fellah
from Star Trek), Turgenev, Berdyaev, etc. were responding to existential
dimensions of the human condition. History and love simply overcame their
rational autonomy.
Valodsya
Quoting Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx:
> Okay -- but my post was also seriously meant as a query into the history of
> philosophy in Russia. I know very little about Russia, or philosophy in
> Russia, so I _was_ interested.
>
> Perhaps you can share with us the narrative of the traditions in philosophy
> in Russia. Meanwhile I'll think of a narrative of my tradition.
>
> Cheers,
>
> J. L. Speranza
> Buenos Aires, Argentina
> Who's seen Brooke's Berdyaev.
>
>
> In a message dated 7/2/2009 1:16:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
> Myriad implications of JL's questions notwithstanding - not all of them
> reputable, I fear - I wish to state publicly that the material
> remunerations
> bestowed upon me by employing institutions hardly count as a "wage" - as
> in a
> "living wage." I am reduced to leading a most humble eksistence, driving a
> 10
> yr. old Volvo, barely supporting my children in Montreal and Bremen, able
> to
> buy philosophy books written only by Bergson, Berdyaev and Iggy, and, the
> ultimate humiliation, forced to drink blended Irish whiskey, even on Canada
> Day. Fortunately, none of this has anything to do with the enthusiasm
> expressed
> by my students, either for philosophy or for refurbishing my supplies of
> requisite pedagogical libation. And, needless to say, no student ever
> gifted me
> with a T-shirt (s)he was wearing at the time, be it grue or not.
>
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