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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Page xi
... write ; Ken Jowitt , without whose lectures I would not have even thought of writing on Russia and whose zeal kept me going ; Paul Rabinow , who provided constant method- ological inspiration and who knew what the art of existence meant ...
... write ; Ken Jowitt , without whose lectures I would not have even thought of writing on Russia and whose zeal kept me going ; Paul Rabinow , who provided constant method- ological inspiration and who knew what the art of existence meant ...
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... writes Fou- cault , there is an individualistic attitude , which assigns absolute value to human individuals in their uniqueness and opposition to a primary group to which they belong . Second , there is a positive valuation of private ...
... writes Fou- cault , there is an individualistic attitude , which assigns absolute value to human individuals in their uniqueness and opposition to a primary group to which they belong . Second , there is a positive valuation of private ...
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... write about themselves , to care about the possession and development of an in- dividual self . But this intensification of relation with the self proceeded without the concomitant assertion of the values of individual autonomy and ...
... write about themselves , to care about the possession and development of an in- dividual self . But this intensification of relation with the self proceeded without the concomitant assertion of the values of individual autonomy and ...
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... since no one can ever fully say what he means so as to exclude in advance every pos- sible misunderstanding " ( HDPR , 49 ; and see xxi , 47 , 77 , 94 ) . he writes that reflection on the origin of a phenomenon Introduction / 11.
... since no one can ever fully say what he means so as to exclude in advance every pos- sible misunderstanding " ( HDPR , 49 ; and see xxi , 47 , 77 , 94 ) . he writes that reflection on the origin of a phenomenon Introduction / 11.
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A Study of Practices Oleg Kharkhordin. he writes that reflection on the origin of a phenomenon always starts " against the background of the already begun " ; 29 and he asserts the neces- sity to write the history of punishment against ...
A Study of Practices Oleg Kharkhordin. he writes that reflection on the origin of a phenomenon always starts " against the background of the already begun " ; 29 and he asserts the neces- sity to write the history of punishment against ...
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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