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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... tion of the group . Caroline Walker Bynum has disputed Morris's opinion ( still indebted to Burckhardt in this respect ) that in the twelfth century the affirmation of the individual happened against and at the expense of the community ...
... tion of the group . Caroline Walker Bynum has disputed Morris's opinion ( still indebted to Burckhardt in this respect ) that in the twelfth century the affirmation of the individual happened against and at the expense of the community ...
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... tion of a figure is possible only against a background , when the " figure- background " composite is perceived as a whole , Searle argues that a similar " background " functions in verbal communication to make understanding possible ...
... tion of a figure is possible only against a background , when the " figure- background " composite is perceived as a whole , Searle argues that a similar " background " functions in verbal communication to make understanding possible ...
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... tion " serious speech acts " and claim that they are modeled on the state- ments of normal science in Kuhn's conception of a paradigm . A paradigm comprises a number of cases of exemplary solving of problems in a given science and thus ...
... tion " serious speech acts " and claim that they are modeled on the state- ments of normal science in Kuhn's conception of a paradigm . A paradigm comprises a number of cases of exemplary solving of problems in a given science and thus ...
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... tion of this configuration . As a result they destabilize it and , perhaps , move people to rework their practices . Method in Question Dreyfus and Rabinow's description of Foucault's method has been under at- tack during the last ...
... tion of this configuration . As a result they destabilize it and , perhaps , move people to rework their practices . Method in Question Dreyfus and Rabinow's description of Foucault's method has been under at- tack during the last ...
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... tion of this configuration . As a result they destabilize it and , perhaps , move people to rework their practices . Method in Question Dreyfus and Rabinow's description of Foucault's method has been under at- tack during the last ...
... tion of this configuration . As a result they destabilize it and , perhaps , move people to rework their practices . Method in Question Dreyfus and Rabinow's description of Foucault's method has been under at- tack during the last ...
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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