The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is another in the 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. Follow your dreams. It
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 philosophy and history of science, is the sixth in the series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any
This paper by Brad Underwood was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul Morson in April 2024. Introduction Humans can indulge feelings that they seem wired to avoid. Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky make the most of this contradiction. Their fiction depicts our draw
This article, written by Igor Mandel and Mikhail Epstein, is appearing for the first time in English on the NURPLRT Forum. The article is also published in a Russian version: “Что в имени тебе моем? Русские писатели в статистике интернета” “Новый Журнал” / The New Review. №316, 2024, сентябрь, стр. 309-324. Abstract This article analyzes the frequency
This paper by Dr. Elizabeth Blake was presented at the Krakow Conferences of Russian Philosophy: Nicolas Berdyaev and Russian Philosophy in the West in Krakow, 2024. As a prisoner, Nikolai Berdyaev, like Fedor Dostoevsky before him and Mikhail Bakhtin after him, was protected by his status as a member of the intelligentsia from the violence