Shapes of Apocalypse: Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought
Andrea . Ed(S): Oppo
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hardcover. Editor(s): Oppo, Andrea. Num Pages: 285 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 581.
This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse, within some key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, and not omitting theatre, cinema or music, there is a specific examination of the concepts of “end of history” and “end of present time“ as conditions for a redemptive image of the world. To understand this idea means to understand an essential part of Slavic culture, which, however divergent and variegated it may be in general, ... Read more
This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse, within some key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, and not omitting theatre, cinema or music, there is a specific examination of the concepts of “end of history” and “end of present time“ as conditions for a redemptive image of the world. To understand this idea means to understand an essential part of Slavic culture, which, however divergent and variegated it may be in general, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618111746
SKU
V9781618111746
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99-15
About Andrea . Ed(S): Oppo
Andrea Oppo is lecturer in aesthetics at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia, Italy. He is the author of Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett, Estetiche del negativo. Studi su Dostoevskij, echov e Beckett, and of the essay "Black Holes. A Philosophical Question on Endgame's and Bartleby's Stalemates" in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd hui N 23.
Reviews for Shapes of Apocalypse: Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought
“The volume should be of interest to specialists of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature and the arts, the Eastern Orthodox Church, or Slavic spirituality in general. While there is great variation among the authors of the ten essays, they all address their genres from a religious or spiritual point of view. As a result, the reader will find some ... Read more