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Exile - The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters (Hardcover, New)
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Exile - The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters (Hardcover, New)
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The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in
modern life there is an experience common to all that threatens the
very basis of community - the experience of exile. No one in the
modern world has been spared the encounter with homelessness.
Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow
in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how
are we implicated? David Patterson responds to these and related
questions by examining exile, a primary motif in Russian thought
over the last century and a half. By "exile" he means not only a
form of punishment but an existential condition. Drawing on texts
by such familiar figures as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and
Brodsky, as well as less thoroughly examined figures, including
Florensky, Shestov, Tertz, and Gendelev, Patterson moves beyond the
political and geographical fact of exile to explore its spiritual,
metaphysical, and linguistic aspects. Thus he pursues the
connections between exile and identity, identity and meaning,
meaning and language. Patterson shows that the problem of meaning
in human life is a problem of homelessness, that the effort to
return from exile is an effort to return meaning to the word, and
that the exile of the word is an exile of the human being. By
making heard voices from the Russian wilderness, Patterson makes
visible the wilderness of the world.
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Imprint: |
The University Press of Kentucky
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 1994 |
First published: |
December 1994 |
Authors: |
David Patterson
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
224 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8131-1888-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8131-1888-3 |
Barcode: |
9780813118888 |
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