The Word Made Self: Russian Writings on Language, 1860–1930
Thomas J. Seifrid
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Hardback. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; CFA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
When Osip Mandelstam wrote that the Russian word was "sentient and breathing flesh," he voiced one of the most powerful themes in his culture. In The Word Made Self, Thomas Seifrid explores this Russian fascination with the power of the word as expressed in the work of philosophers, theologians, and artists of the Silver Age and early Soviet period. He shows that their diverse works (poems, novels, philosophical and religious tracts) share an attempt to articulate "a model of selfhood within the phenomenon of language." The thinkers included in this book—among them Pavel Florenskii, Roman Jakobson, Aleksei Losev, and Gustav ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801443169
SKU
V9780801443169
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About Thomas J. Seifrid
Thomas Seifrid is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California. He is the author of Andrei Platonov: Uncertainties of Spirit.
Reviews for The Word Made Self: Russian Writings on Language, 1860–1930
"For the last two centuries, serious Russian thought about language has been nourished by sources alien to the current conventions of scholarly Anglophone discourse. In place of the snappy pragmatic essay or the empirical argument based on clinical evidence, we find Neoplatonism, the theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and German Romantic philosophy. Thomas Seifrid's patient, lucid treatment of this ... Read more