Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
David Remnick writes about the trials and tribulations of the Russian scholar and former US ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul and about the evolution of Putin’s, hmmm, philosophy. I would recommend this long article to anyone, whether a novice or…
Maria Snegovaya, a Columbia University doctoral candidate in political science, writes on The WaPo‘s Monkey Cage blog: Putin’s favorites include a bunch of Russian nationalist philosophers of early 20th century – Berdyaev, Solovyev, Ilyin — whom he often quotes in…
Oliver Ready reviews Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia by Lesley Chamberlain. A “philosophic history,” as I understand, means a history of philosophic thought here. “Lesley Chamberlain discusses why Western philosophy failed to take root in Russia,” the reviewer reports,…