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Tag: aesthetics

The Self and its Sideshadows

Nikolai Ge: "What is truth?" Christ and Pilate 1890

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. Introduction “[C]hance, the very name

Postmodernist thought of the late Soviet period: three profiles

Kabakov, Sketch for Fly as the Subject and Basis for Philosophical Discourse

The following article, written by Mikhail Epstein, was first published in Studies in East European Thought volume 73 (2021) and is republished here with the permission of the author. Abstract This article introduces postmodernist trends in late Soviet thought through the prism of the three generations: the philosopher and writer Aleksandr Zinoviev (1922– 2006), the poet, artist, and