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Florensky: Rationality, Faith, and the Trinity as Truth
Posted 13/11/2024
The following post by Daniel Schrader-Dobris, a graduating senior philosophy student at USC planning on pursuing an advanced degree in cognitive science or the...
The Underground and Gary Saul Morson
Posted 11/11/2024
This paper by Brad Underwood was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul...
Reputations in Numbers: Russian Writers in Internet Statistics
Posted 10/09/2024
This article, written by Igor Mandel and Mikhail Epstein, is appearing for the first time in English on the NURPLRT Forum. The article is...
The Former Prisoners Nikolai Berdyaev and Fedor Dostoevsky on Confinement, Personality, and Revolutionaries
Posted 30/08/2024
This paper by Dr. Elizabeth Blake was presented at the Krakow Conferences of Russian Philosophy: Nicolas Berdyaev and Russian Philosophy in the West in...
F.M. Dostoevsky’s Nationalism: History, Historiography, and Politics. An Old Controversy in a Post-2022 Context
Posted 10/07/2024
This article by Julia Berest was first published in Russian History 50 (2023), 185–218. It is republished here with the permission of the author...
Crucible of Doubt
Posted 29/05/2024
The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the sixth in the series of posts highlighting exemplary work by...
Forgiveness and Punishment
Posted 06/05/2024
The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the fifth in a new series of posts highlighting exemplary work...
Gary Saul Morson and Vekhi/Landmarks: Open Humanism in Russian Thought
Posted 01/05/2024
This paper by Randall A. Poole was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul Morson...
Wonder Confronts Prosaics
Posted 29/04/2024
This paper by Caryl Emerson was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul Morson in...
THE POLITICS OF APOCALYPSE: On the Russian Anti-world
Posted 25/04/2024
This article, written by Mikhail Epstein was first published in: The Politics of Apocalypse: On the Russian Anti-world. Common Knowledge (Duke UP), 29.2, 2023,...
Pursuing Truth through Doubt and Inquiry
Posted 20/03/2024
The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the fourth in a new series of posts highlighting exemplary work...
Theses on Poor Faith
Posted 06/03/2024
These Theses by Mikhail Epstein, translated from Russian by Jonathan Sutton, originally appeared in: Rebuilding the Profession: Comparative Literature, Intercultural Studies and the Humanities...