Shapes of Apocalypse: Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2013

Shapes of Apocalypse

Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought

Edited by: Andrea Oppo
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program

In the series Myths and Taboos in Russian Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618116956

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About this book

This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, not omitting theatre, cinema or music, the concepts of “end of history” and “end of present time” are specifically examined as conditions for a redemptive image of the world. To understand this idea is to understand an essential part of Slavic culture, which, however divergent and variegated it may be, converges on this specific myth in a surprising manner.

Author / Editor information

Oppo Andrea :

Andrea Oppo is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia (Italy). He is the editor of Shapes of Apocalypse: Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought (Boston, 2013), and the author of Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett (Oxford, 2008) and of numerous articles on the relationship between philosophy and the arts in the twentieth century.Andrea Oppo (PhD University College Dublin) is associate professor of aesthetics at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia (Italy). He is the author of Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett (2008), Estetiche del negativo. Studi su Dostoevskij, Cechov e Beckett (2009), and numerous articles on Russian religious philosophy and the relationship between philosophy and the arts.

Reviews

Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, professor of history, Fordham University:
“This collection enhances our knowledge and understanding of the apocalyptic vision in Russia and Eastern Europe. It introduces experts on Russia to important figures in Bohemia, Croatia, and Poland, and it offers fresh interpretations of well-known Russian authors.”

Pamela Davidson:
“William J. Leatherbarrow’s essay (previously published in 1982) on apocalyptic imagery in Dostoevskii’s The Idiot and The Devils is an outstanding model of concise, elegant and lucid analysis. Although the author modestly refers to it as a ‘working paper’ (p. 132) and draws only tentative conclusions, he succeeds in integrating his evidence into a focused and persuasive argument on Dostoevskii’s use of apocalyptic motifs to highlight the moral failure of utopianism and the dream of the Golden Age....[R]eaders will undoubtedly find unusual materials, novel approaches and stimulating ideas in this volume, which is attractively produced and pleasant to handle.”

Ayse Dietrich, Middle East Technical University, International Journal of Russian Studies Issue no. 6, Jan 2017:
“For anyone concerned with or interested in the topic of the apocalypse in arts, literature and philosophy in Slavic culture this book would be invaluable and it is likely to become a primary reference source for future research in the study of religious concepts in general, and the apocalypse in particular.”

Sarah Predock Burke:
“The volume should be of interest to specialists of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature and the arts, the Eastern Orthodox Church, or Slavic spirituality in general. While there is great variation among the authors of the ten essays, they all address their genres from a religious or spiritual point of view. As a result, the reader will find some unexpected ‘reads’ of familiar works in the literary and arts sections and an interesting variety of opinions regarding Eastern Orthodoxy and apocalypse in the philosophy section.”

"This volume, spanning such diverse areas as philosophy, literature, music, art, and film, is broadly appealing to an interdisciplinary audience interested in both Slavic and non-Slavic conceptions of the apocalypse."

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Fore word Open Access Download PDF	7
Preface Open Access Download PDF	9
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	15
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	16
Part One: Philosophy
Introduction Andrea Oppo Open Access Download PDF	20
The Tilted Pillar: Rozanov and the Apocalypse Giancarlo Baffo Open Access Download PDF	34
Salvation Without Redemption: Phenomenology of (Pre-)History in Patočka’s Late Work Riccardo Paparusso Open Access Download PDF	68
Part Two: Literature
The Sacrament of End. The Theme of Apocalypse in Three Works by Gogol’ Vladimir Glyantz Open Access Download PDF	89
Apocalyptic Imagery in Dostoevskij’s The Idiot and The Devils William J. Leatherbarrow Open Access Download PDF	122
Black Blood, White Roses: Apocalypse and Redemption in Blok’s Later Poetry Irene Masing-Delić Open Access Download PDF	134
Apocalypse and Golgotha in Miroslav Krleža’s Olden Days: Memoirs and Diaries 1914-1921/1922 Suzana Marjanić Open Access Download PDF	153
Part Three: Music and Visual Arts
The Apocalyptic Dispersion of Light into Poetry and Music: Aleksandr Skrjabin in the Russian Religious Imagination Polina Dimova Open Access Download PDF	175
From the Peredvižniki’s Realism to Lenin’s Mausoleum: The Two Poles of an Apocalyptic-Palingenetic Path Chiara Cantelli Open Access Download PDF	203
Theatre at the Limit: Jerzy Grotowski’s Apocalypsis cum Figuris Andrea Oppo Open Access Download PDF	225
On Apocalypse, Witches and Desiccated Trees: A Reading of Andrej Tarkovskij’s The Sacrifice Alessio Scarlato Open Access Download PDF	244
List of Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	265
Index Open Access Download PDF	278

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 288

eBook

Published: December 17, 2017
ISBN: 9781618116956