The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the fifth in a new series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication. Trivial transgressions
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 in April 2024. I began to study Saul Morson’s work in the early 1990s, when I was a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame. His 1993 essay, “Prosaic Bakhtin:
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 April 2024. The title of this talk is built off a bad piece of word-play. Donna Orwin and Sandy Goldberg opened the conference on Saul’s latest, Wonder Confronts Certainty. Now I
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, pp.41-72. The book is available in Russian in both print and as an ebook at the following sources: Mikhail Epshtein. Russkii Antimir: Politika na Grani Apokalipsisa (The Russian Anti-world: Politics on the
The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the fourth in a new series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication. Certainty is comforting,