Community after Totalitarianism: The Russian Orthodox Intellectual Tradition and the Philosophical Discourse of Political Modernity

by Kristina Stoeckl

Overview

Starting with a definition of political modernity from the perspective of its greatest trial - totalitarianism - this study asks the question how community is conceptualized in the contemporary Western philosophical discourse and in the Russian Orthodox intellectual tradition. Contemporary philosophical and theological approaches in Russia develop alternative perspectives on community and on the human subject. This study analyzes them historically and philosophically and compares them with liberal, postmodern and communitarian philosophies of community in the West.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631579367
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	02/12/2009
Series:	Erfurter Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des Orthodoxen Christentums , #4
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Author: Kristina Stoeckl was born in Austria in 1977. She has studied comparative literature, Russian studies, international relations and political theory in Innsbruck, Bochum, Budapest and Florence. Currently she is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck.

Table of Contents

Contents: Totalitarianism and the question of community in political philosophy – The interpretative space of political modernity – The Russian Orthodox intellectual tradition in the twentieth century – Contingencies and alternatives in political modernity – Three elements for a post-totalitarian philosophy of community.