Dostoevsky's Democracy
If you pick up a book on the concept of democracy in nineteenth-century Russia, you will need to know that the words democracy and democrat mean something rather different from what we might expect in the United States. When Turgenev, in a letter to a friend, described the hero of Fathers and Sons a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 361-362 |
| Review of: | Dostoevsky's Democracy (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008) (Cassedy, Steven)
Dostoevsky's democracy (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008) (Cassedy, Steven) Dostoevsky's Democracy (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008) (Cassedy, Steven) Dostoevsky's democracy (Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2008) (Cassedy, Steven) |
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| Summary: | If you pick up a book on the concept of democracy in nineteenth-century Russia, you will need to know that the words democracy and democrat mean something rather different from what we might expect in the United States. When Turgenev, in a letter to a friend, described the hero of Fathers and Sons as a “democrat to the fingertips,” he was not referring to Bazarov's embrace of Enlightenment-era social contract theory. He had in mind his hero's ability to treat other people with respect, regardless of their social class., Nancy Ruttenburg has devoted a full-length study to the concepts of democracy and democrat in Dostoevsky. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp046 |