This article, written by Mikhail Epstein, is appearing for the first time in English on the NURPLRT Forum. An expanded version of this article is published in Russian in the book: Mikhail Epstein. Pered kontsom istorii? Grani russkogo antimira (Before the End of History? Facets of the Russian Anti-World). New York: Freedom Letters, 2025. (Series
This paper by Demir Aytaç was originally published in the journal Bütün Dünya, Başkent Üniversitesi Kültür Yayını (March 2025): p.121-127. It appears for the first time in English here on the Forum. It was while I was reading the classics of Russian literature in the historical buildings of Northwestern University—which was founded in the 1850’s—that
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
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 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