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The Discovery of Chance - The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen (Hardcover)
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The Discovery of Chance - The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen (Hardcover)
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Alexander Herzen-philosopher, novelist, essayist, political
agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the
nineteenth century-was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and
Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and
Thoughts and as the father of Russian socialism, his contributions
to the history of ideas defy easy categorization because they are
so numerous. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of
the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called "the forerunner of
much twentieth-century thought." In an era dominated by ideologies
of human progress, Herzen resisted them because they conflicted
with his sense of reality, a sense honed by his unusually
comprehensive understanding of history, philosophy, and the natural
sciences. Following his unconventional decision to study science at
university, he came to recognize the implications of early
evolutionary theory, not just for the natural world but for human
history. In this respect, he was a Darwinian even before Darwin.
Socialism for Russia, as Herzen conceived it, was not an
ideology-least of all Marxian "scientific socialism"-but a concrete
means of grappling with unique historical circumstances, a way for
Russians to combine the best of Western achievements with the
possibilities of their own cultural milieu in order to move
forward. In the same year that Marx declared communism to be the
"solution to the riddle of history," Herzen denied that any such
solution could exist. History, like nature, was contingent-an
improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance.
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