This paper was part of the opening roundtable celebrating Mikhail Epstein at the Inaugural Conference of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought which took place at the Northwestern University, April 2023. The roundtable included Alyssa deBlasio, Randall A. Poole, Victoria Juharyan, and the author of this paper,
This is an interview with Professor Mikhail Epstein on his latest book The Russian Anti-World: Politics on the Verge of Apocalypse. It was conducted on May 18, 2023 by Peter Gregory Winsky. Mikhail’s book can be purchased here, and all proceeds go to aiding Ukrainian refugees. Mikhail N. Epstein is a cultural and literary
This paper was presented at the 2022 ASEEES conference in Chicago, IL by Jillian Pignataro. Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s 1863 novel, What is to be Done? has principally been considered as an ideological and didactic work, and the exceptional Rakhmetov has been seen as Chernyshevsky’s vision of the ideal man.[1] Nonetheless, as scholar Andrew Drozd has shown,
These are presentation notes for a paper given at the international symposium: Russian Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought in a Time of Catastrophe, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Lisbon, Portugal, March 2023. Written by Gennadii Aliaiev, translated by Dr. Victor V. Chernyshov, and edited for style. To begin, I would like to present the source for my
This article by Erik Eklund, which was originally a portion of thesis A Triptych of Bottomless Light: Repetition, Originality and Transcendence in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, was first published in Literature and Theology, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 298–315. It has been slightly revised for style. I: INTRODUCTION Dismantling the pervasive belief that