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This set reprints volumes that were orginally published by
Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. in 1953. Landmark volumes at the time
of their original publication, these titles do not merely expound
the theoretical constructions of Russian philosophers, but also
relate these constructions to the general conditions of Russian
life. Volume One examines the historical conditions of the
development of philosophy in Russia and explores the general
features of Russian philosophy. It also surveys the principal works
on the history of Russian philosophy. Volume Two includes
biographies and examination of the themes of the following
philosophers; Vladimir Solovyov, V.D. Kudryavtsev, N.F. Fyodorov
and Later Hegelians such as Chicherin, Debolski and Bakunin. This
volume also provides analysis of various schools of thought in
Russian philosophy in the twentieth century, for example;
Neo-Leibzianism, Modern Positivism and New-Marxism to name but a
few.
Originally published in 1952. This book collects numerous works on
the revival of Spinoza scholarship in the Soviet Union during the
1920s and 30's, including the emergence of conflicting Marxist
schools of Spinoza interpretation. This work includes translations
by Kline of seven major articles on Spinoza published from
1923-1932, with a lengthy introduction providing contextual
references. These developments were generally unknown outside of
Russia due to lack of prior translations into a Western European
language. The Marxist view of Spinoza represents a break not only
with the dominant traditions of Western scholarship, but also with
those critical and negative views of pre-Revolutionary Russia. This
book provides both the study of Spinoza in Soviet philosophy, and
of Soviet philosophy through Spinoza.
Originally published in 1952. This book collects numerous works on
the revival of Spinoza scholarship in the Soviet Union during the
1920s and 30's, including the emergence of conflicting Marxist
schools of Spinoza interpretation. This work includes translations
by Kline of seven major articles on Spinoza published from
1923-1932, with a lengthy introduction providing contextual
references. These developments were generally unknown outside of
Russia due to lack of prior translations into a Western European
language. The Marxist view of Spinoza represents a break not only
with the dominant traditions of Western scholarship, but also with
those critical and negative views of pre-Revolutionary Russia. This
book provides both the study of Spinoza in Soviet philosophy, and
of Soviet philosophy through Spinoza.
On February 24-25, 1956, in a closed session of the 20th Congress
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita S. Khrushchev
made his now famous speech on the crimes of the Stalin era. That
speech marked a break with the past and it marked the end of what
J.M. Bochenski dubbed the "dead period" of Soviet philosophy.
Soviet philosophy changed abruptly after 1956, especially in the
area of dialectical materialism. Yet most philosophers in the West
neither noticed nor cared. For them, the resurrection of Soviet
philosophy, even if believable, was of little interest. The reasons
for the lack of belief and interest were multiple. Soviet
philosophy had been dull for so long that subtle differences made
little difference. The Cold War was in a frigid period and
reinforced the attitude of avoiding anything Soviet. Phenomenology
and exis tentialism were booming in Europe and analytic philosophy
was king on the Anglo-American philosophical scene. Moreover, not
many philosophers in the West knew or could read Russian or were
motivated to learn it to be able to read Soviet philosophical
works. The launching of Sputnik awakened the West from its self
complacent slumbers. Academic interest in the Soviet Union grew."
All the authors of the sixteen essays gathered in this volume are
concerned, in their different ways, to clarify, criticize, and
develop key ideas and insights of Alfred North Whitehead
(1861-1947), one of the towering figures of twentieth-century
speculative thought, whose "process philosophy" has, in recent
decades, aroused intense intellectual interest both in this country
and abroad. The present volume is intended to complement, but not
to duplicate, an earlier selection of important Whitehead studies,
Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on His Philosophy, ed. G. L. Kline
(Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1963).
All the authors of the sixteen essays gathered in this volume are
concerned, in their different ways, to clarify, criticize, and
develop key ideas and insights of Alfred North Whitehead
(1861-1947), one of the towering figures of twentieth-century
speculative thought, whose "process philosophy" has, in recent
decades, aroused intense intellectual interest both in this country
and abroad. The present volume is intended to complement, but not
to duplicate, an earlier selection of important Whitehead studies,
Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on His Philosophy, ed. G. L. Kline
(Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1963).
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