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Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison - Development and Change of Outlook from the 19th to the 20th Century (Hardcover, 1976 ed.)
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Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison - Development and Change of Outlook from the 19th to the 20th Century (Hardcover, 1976 ed.)
Series: Sovietica, 38
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In this year of bicentennial celebration, there will no doubt take
place several cultural analyses of the American tradition. This is
only as it should be, for without an extensive, broad-based inquiry
into where we have come from, we shall surely not foresee where we
might go. Nonetheless, most cultural analyses of the American
context suffer from a common fault - the lack of a different
context to use for purposes of comparison. True, American values
and ideals were partly inherited from the European tradition. But
that tradition is in many ways an inadequate mode of comparison.
Without going too far afield, let us note two points: first,
European culture was the proud inheritor of the Renaissance
tradition, and, going back still further, of classical culture;
second, the European countries are compact. Their land masses are
such that the notion of "frontier" simply would not have arisen in
the same way as it did in America. On the other side of the globe,
however, there does exist a country capable of serving as a
suitable mirror. We speak, of course, of Russia. That country also
came relatively late onto the cultural horizon, and was not privy
to the Renaissance tradition. Furthermore, her land mass is such as
to be "experi mentally infmite" in character - not unlike the
American frontier. It is hoped that much can be leamed about the
present cultural context by com paring the two countries in their
youthful stages."
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