Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal
The Philosophers and the Freudians
Biographical note
Anna Lisa Crone was Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Chicago. Her first monograph, published in 1978, was an innovative literary study of the Russian philosopher Vasily Rozanov. Entitled Rozanov and the End of Literature: Polyphony and the Dissolution of Genre in Solitaria and Fallen Leaves, it opened a new chapter in the study of Russian philosophical discourse.
In 2001 she published The Daring of Deržavin: The Moral and Aesthetic Independence of the Poet in Russia. In 2004, together with Jennifer Day, she published My Petersburg/Myself: Mental Architecture and Imaginative Space in Modern Russian Literature. Her final years were devoted to the present monograph on the philosophies of eros in Russian modernism.
In 2001 she published The Daring of Deržavin: The Moral and Aesthetic Independence of the Poet in Russia. In 2004, together with Jennifer Day, she published My Petersburg/Myself: Mental Architecture and Imaginative Space in Modern Russian Literature. Her final years were devoted to the present monograph on the philosophies of eros in Russian modernism.
Readership
This volume is aimed at scholars and graduate students with an interest in Russian literature and Russian religious thought; those interested in modern Christianity, Russian orthodoxy and Russian religious thought; and those interested in Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Otto Rank, psychoanalysis in the Slavic lands, theories of creativity, education and psychology.
Reviews
"Crone’s grasp of the subject is undoubtedly impressive and ranks as a novel contribution to existing studies of
the Russian religious renaissance."
Frances Nethercott, University of St Andrews, in Slavic Review Vol. 71, No. 1 (2012), pp. 186-187.
“In a series of fresh readings of the early 20th century Russian philosophers, Anna Lisa Crone has forever changed the received truths about this era. Fin-de-siècle discoveries in sexuality and sublimation have never seemed so exciting. Arguably, this is the best book on Russian spiritual culture in any language.”
Alexander Etkind, Cambridge University
" [...] this volume presents a fascinating study of four crucial Russian religious thinkers and their interest in, and writing about, the relationship of love and creativity. Furthermore, it is unique, perhaps since the work of William James, in its own creative blend of the fields of philosophy, religion, and psychology. I recommend it strongly to all readers, with or without a background in Russian culture."
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in: Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, Vol. 52, Nos. 1-2, pp. 145-147.
the Russian religious renaissance."
Frances Nethercott, University of St Andrews, in Slavic Review Vol. 71, No. 1 (2012), pp. 186-187.
“In a series of fresh readings of the early 20th century Russian philosophers, Anna Lisa Crone has forever changed the received truths about this era. Fin-de-siècle discoveries in sexuality and sublimation have never seemed so exciting. Arguably, this is the best book on Russian spiritual culture in any language.”
Alexander Etkind, Cambridge University
" [...] this volume presents a fascinating study of four crucial Russian religious thinkers and their interest in, and writing about, the relationship of love and creativity. Furthermore, it is unique, perhaps since the work of William James, in its own creative blend of the fields of philosophy, religion, and psychology. I recommend it strongly to all readers, with or without a background in Russian culture."
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in: Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, Vol. 52, Nos. 1-2, pp. 145-147.
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