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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... sense of self - concern , that took place un- der the auspices of the Soviet regime . That is , official discourse that had so far banned the values of the individual autonomy and privacy was simply radically reversed and its opposite ...
... sense of self - concern , that took place un- der the auspices of the Soviet regime . That is , official discourse that had so far banned the values of the individual autonomy and privacy was simply radically reversed and its opposite ...
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... Sense of Self in Sixteenth- Century France , " in Reconstructing Individualism , ed . Thomas C. Heller , Mor- ton Sosna , and David E. Wellbery ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1986 ) , 53,63 . METHOD Hubert Dreyfus and Paul ...
... Sense of Self in Sixteenth- Century France , " in Reconstructing Individualism , ed . Thomas C. Heller , Mor- ton Sosna , and David E. Wellbery ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1986 ) , 53,63 . METHOD Hubert Dreyfus and Paul ...
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... sense.18 Foucault uses the term " background " frequently , but not necessarily in Dreyfus's sense of the term . He employs it mostly in the idiomatic phrase " against the background , " often used interchangeably with synonymous idioms ...
... sense.18 Foucault uses the term " background " frequently , but not necessarily in Dreyfus's sense of the term . He employs it mostly in the idiomatic phrase " against the background , " often used interchangeably with synonymous idioms ...
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... sense among the practices , nor any reason that brought these practices together . For example , Foucault simply registers that me- dieval thinking employed four practices of finding resemblances in order to produce serious sentences in ...
... sense among the practices , nor any reason that brought these practices together . For example , Foucault simply registers that me- dieval thinking employed four practices of finding resemblances in order to produce serious sentences in ...
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... sense , in this theorization , has forgotten about this quality and ascribes the act of " prohibi- tion " or " suppression " only to human beings ; while Foucault and Heidegger hold it to be the quality of the discursive practices . On ...
... sense , in this theorization , has forgotten about this quality and ascribes the act of " prohibi- tion " or " suppression " only to human beings ; while Foucault and Heidegger hold it to be the quality of the discursive practices . On ...
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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