Russian Mason on the Paths of his Native Culture

• Druk: Kraków, 2014
• Autor: Małgorzata Abassy
• Wydawca: Księgarnia Akademicka Kraków

Małgorzata Abassy's book is a useful and clever analysis in which an intellectual story of a Russian thinker becomes a material for a case study that strengthens a broader reflection about the transformation of seemingly unchangeable patterns of Russian culture. A fragment of a review written by dr. hab. Joachim Diec, prof. UJ

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• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-7638-505-1
• ISBN druku: 978-83-7638-505-1
• Liczba stron: 196

Introduction  9
Chapter I
The Patterns of Russian Culture: “The Orthodox Church” and “The Empire”. The victims of Table of Ranks and the Russian nobility in the 18th century  21
Chapter II
Masonic lodges in Russia. Catherine the Great and her attitude towards Masonic anthroposophy and theosophy  43
Chapter III
Novikov and Masons. Russian intelligentsia in search of tools for developing the society   79
Chapter IV
Man – society – state. Old and new patterns of Russian culture in the works of N. I. Novikov  103
4.1. Bringing up a subject and bringing up a human. Pedagogical and educational issues in the works of Novikov against the background of the educational activity of Catherine the Great   103
4.2. In the defense of the weak and deprived of their own voice.
The polemics of “The Drone” and “All Sorts of Things”  138
4.3. An individual in the face of the Empire  164
Conclusion
From subculture to counterculture. Nicolas Novikov
and the Decembrists  175
Bibliography   179
Indexes  191
Biographical note  197