The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of PracticesOleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals—which forced each Communist to reflect intensely and repeatedly on his or her "self," an entirely novel experience for many of them—had their antecedents in the Orthodox Christian practices of doing penance in the public gaze. Individualization in Soviet Russia occurred through the intensification of these public penitential practices rather than the private confessional practices that are characteristic of Western Christianity. He also finds that objectification of the individual in Russia relied on practices of mutual surveillance among peers, rather than on the hierarchical surveillance of subordinates by superiors that characterized the West. The implications of this book expand well beyond its brilliant analysis of the connection between Bolshevism and Eastern Orthodoxy to shed light on many questions about the nature of Russian society and culture. |
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... discourse is but another variant theme constituted by Orientalist discourse. Even though the researcher sets out to show the uniqueness and versatility of Islamic discourse by constituting a question out of the Orientalist world-view ...
... discourse is but another variant theme constituted by Orientalist discourse. Even though the researcher sets out to show the uniqueness and versatility of Islamic discourse by constituting a question out of the Orientalist world-view ...
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... discourse of exile in the West has to develop itself in an alienating rather than a straightforwardly repressive environment . Here Palestinian discourse gropes for new expressions tailored to the possibilities and constraints of living ...
... discourse of exile in the West has to develop itself in an alienating rather than a straightforwardly repressive environment . Here Palestinian discourse gropes for new expressions tailored to the possibilities and constraints of living ...
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... discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press'. Discourse and Society 19.3: 273–306. Cap, P. 2013. Proximization. The Pragmatics of Symbolic Distance Crossing. Amsterdam ...
... discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press'. Discourse and Society 19.3: 273–306. Cap, P. 2013. Proximization. The Pragmatics of Symbolic Distance Crossing. Amsterdam ...
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... discourse. CRT and its examination of the unconscious ways that race shapes legal thinking deeply influences the methods and theories employed in this collection. The scholarship collected herein examines historical patterns of racism ...
... discourse. CRT and its examination of the unconscious ways that race shapes legal thinking deeply influences the methods and theories employed in this collection. The scholarship collected herein examines historical patterns of racism ...
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... discourse' and a matrix for risk discourse and its most important parameters. We have also offered an in-depth mapping of risk and responsibility and we have shown how an under- standing of discourse about risk and risk scenarios needs ...
... discourse' and a matrix for risk discourse and its most important parameters. We have also offered an in-depth mapping of risk and responsibility and we have shown how an under- standing of discourse about risk and risk scenarios needs ...
Contents
XXXI | 138 |
XXXII | 141 |
XXXIII | 145 |
XXXIV | 147 |
XXXV | 152 |
XXXVI | 152 |
XXXVII | 152 |
XXXVIII | 167 |
XIV | 33 |
XV | 34 |
XVI | 46 |
XVII | 48 |
XVIII | 49 |
XIX | 58 |
XX | 65 |
XXI | 71 |
XXII | 76 |
XXIII | 81 |
XXIV | 88 |
XXV | 90 |
XXVI | 97 |
XXVII | 102 |
XXVIII | 112 |
XXIX | 123 |
XXX | 132 |
XLI | 176 |
XLII | 183 |
XLIII | 192 |
XLIV | 198 |
XLV | 207 |
XLVII | 225 |
XLVIII | 230 |
XLIX | 230 |
L | 232 |
LI | 239 |
LII | 247 |
LIII | 253 |
LIV | 260 |
LV | 267 |
LVI | 291 |
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