Akim Volynsky : a hidden Russian-Jewish prophet /

"In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy goes far beyond the accepted image of Akim Volynsky as a controversial literary critic of the 1890s who ran the first journal of Russian Symbolists, promoted philosophic idealism and proposed the first modernist reading of Dostoev...

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Main Author: Tolstai︠a︡, Elena (Author)
Other Authors: Cook, Simon (translator and copyeditor.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Russian
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Studia Judaeoslavica, volume 11
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Table of Contents:
  • Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet; Copyright; Contents; 1 Volynsky in Retrospect; Volynsky Known and Unknown; Jewish Themes; A Russian-Jewish Philosopher?; Volynsky in Russian Literary History; 2 A Jewish Journalist; Origins; A Jewish Polemicist; An Idealist; A Spinozist; "Zion and Calvary"; "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty"; Volynsky as a "Spinoza"; 3 Toward Tolstoy; Above Denominations; Tolstoy as a Philosopher; First Jewish-Christian Typologies; Getting to Yasnaya Polyana; A Talk about Solov'ev; Later Revaluations of Tolstoy; Brother Akim; A Forerunner.
  • 4 Russian CriticsCauses of Decline; Belinsky; Dobroliubov; Chernyshevsky; Pisarev; Dostoevsky as a Critic; 5 Against Decadence; An Anti-Nietzschean; The Marxist Episode; "An underground mine"; Lou Salome; A Tramp Who was a Decadent; Decline and Demise; 6 Dostoevsky; The Dostoevsky Controversy; A Talk about Inner Truth; Language of Flesh and Metaphysics of Soul; "Dostoevsky under the sign of Apollo"; Modern Estimations; A Religious Philosopher; 7 Theater; Moving to Khodotov; Volynsky and Gorky; At Komissarzhevskaya's; A Shift to the Left; At Apollon; Dymov and Asch on Volynsky.
  • A Guru of Russian Ballet8 The Jewish Side of the Argument; A Humanist; Vol'fila; The Four Gospels; The Jewish Worldview; "Habima"; The Jewish Theater. Article 1; The Third Testament of Akim Volynsky; Stuck with His Head in the Firmament; Ariosophy Inside Out; Volynsky's Apocalypse; 9 Rembrandt; The Rembrandt Cult and Argument; Volynsky's Rembrandt; Was Rembrandt a Jew?; Rosicrucianism; Habima; The New People and the Cult of Thought; Index.