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
This article by Julia Berest was first published in Russian History 50 (2023), 185–218. It is republished here with the permission of the author and publisher. The article is available as a PDF through a link following the abstract. Abstract: Dostoevsky’s nationalism has long been a sensitive and controversial topic in Western scholarship. At the
The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, 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 undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication. In Capitalism
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