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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... Oneself : The Objective of Individuation 175 Lichnost ' 184 The Stalinist Individual : Formation of a Hero 190 ... ONESELF : THE INDIVIDUAL AS A SUBJECT OF KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION 231 History of Working on Oneself 231 The Structure of ...
... Oneself : The Objective of Individuation 175 Lichnost ' 184 The Stalinist Individual : Formation of a Hero 190 ... ONESELF : THE INDIVIDUAL AS A SUBJECT OF KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION 231 History of Working on Oneself 231 The Structure of ...
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... oneself , that is , of the ways in which a human being is called upon to make him / herself an object and a field of action ( so that one can know , correct , and pu- rify oneself , for example ] .8 Though Foucault calls these ...
... oneself , that is , of the ways in which a human being is called upon to make him / herself an object and a field of action ( so that one can know , correct , and pu- rify oneself , for example ] .8 Though Foucault calls these ...
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... oneself , in pleasure and in pain , things that it would be impossible to tell anyone else .... Western man has become a confessing animal.'o Recent historical studies seem to support Foucault's stress on the cen- trality of confession ...
... oneself , in pleasure and in pain , things that it would be impossible to tell anyone else .... Western man has become a confessing animal.'o Recent historical studies seem to support Foucault's stress on the cen- trality of confession ...
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... oneself apart from or in opposition to a group was largely impossible . Even when Abelard wrote his famous autobiography , he presented it as a description of a vocation called " philosopher " rather than of the unique individual named ...
... oneself apart from or in opposition to a group was largely impossible . Even when Abelard wrote his famous autobiography , he presented it as a description of a vocation called " philosopher " rather than of the unique individual named ...
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... oneself as an object of thought and question it as to its meaning , its conditions , its goals " ( " Polemics , Pol- itics , and Problemizations , " in The Foucault Reader , ed . Paul Rabinow [ New York : Pantheon , 1984 ] , 389 l . 65 ...
... oneself as an object of thought and question it as to its meaning , its conditions , its goals " ( " Polemics , Pol- itics , and Problemizations , " in The Foucault Reader , ed . Paul Rabinow [ New York : Pantheon , 1984 ] , 389 l . 65 ...
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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