Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-316) and index.
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pt. I: The making of the intelligentsia. The men of the 1820 ; The beautiful souls ; The new men ; The populists ; The impact of Marx ; The silver age -- pt. II: The making of Russian philosophy. The moral map ; Rejecting the view from Descartes ; The contest of good and evil -- pt. III: Against idealism : cure or undoing? Lenin and the view from no one -- pt. IV: The long tradition. How the long tradition survived ; On the edge of reason -- A comparative chronology of Russian and Western philosophers.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Introduces key Russian thinkers prior to the 1917 revolution, offering insight into regional philosophical belief systems about happiness, society, and morality that challenges popular conceptions.