Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:34:31 -0500 (EST)
Subject: MT: Rand & Russians


> From: Oscar Guardiola <phl030-AT-abdn.ac.uk>
> Hello Chris. Thanks for your very exciting posts. I must 
> confess I have little patience for the 'Rand Co.' trend 
> (remeber Fukuyama ?)but your comments so far outline a 
> whole new picture. I wonder if you could expand a bit on 
> your treatment of the russian philosophical tradition prior 
> to Marxism's dominance. What you have said so far sounds 
> very interesting indeed. 
> Is it possible to find any material, publications or 
> whatever, about the trends of thought you describe ?
> I'm going to place my order for your book just now.
> With regards,
> Oscar Guardiola
> King's College, Aberdeen

Thanks Oscar, for your interest.  Yes, I can certainly recommend a few
very interesting collections for your reading pleasure.  All of these
books deal with the various trends in Russian thought in the Silver Age:

Nina Berberova.  1992.  THE ITALICS ARE MINE.  NY:  Alfred Knopf.
Nicolas Berdyaev.  1951.  DREAM AND REALITY.  NY: Macmillan.
Frederick Copleston.  1988.  RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY.  Notre Dame.
Frederick Copleston.  1986. PHILOSOPHY IN RUSSIA.  Notre Dame.
Edie, Scanlan, Zeldin.  1965.  RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY, esp. vol. 3.
	Quadrangle.
Iurii Vladimirovich Gote.  1988.  TIME OF TROUBLES.  Princeton.
N.O. Lossky. (Rand's teacher).  [1906] 1919.  THE INTUITIVE BASIS OF
	KNOWLEDGE. Macmillan.
Lossky.  [1917] 1928.  THE WORLD AS AN ORGANIC WHOLE. Oxford.
Lossky.  1951.  HISTORY OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY.
Lossky.  1969.  VOSPOMINANIIA. (Memoirs).  
	Lossky also wrote quite a few articles for THE PERSONALIST, while
he was a philosopher-in-exile in the 1950s and 60s.
Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer.  1975.  DMITRI SERGEEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY AND THE
	SILVER AGE.  Nijoff.
Rosenthal, ed.  1986.  NIETZSCHE IN RUSSIA.  Princeton (superb study).
Rosenthal, ed.  1994.  NIETZSCHE AND SOVIET CULTURE:  ALLY AND ADVERSARY.
	Cambridge.
Zenkovsky, Nicolas.  1953.   A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY. Columbia.

	Some of these are general works, and some more specific to the
Silver Age.  There is a very real movement within Russian academia toward
recovering this lost culture.  VOPROSY FILOSOFII and VOPROSY LITERATURY
are currently republishing many of the lost classics from the Silver Age
period, including Lossky's work.
					Chris

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