Russian literature and philosophy: Ways of interaction

Abstract

A result of several seminars supervised by E. Takho-Godi at IMLI RAN, the collective monograph is the first volume in the new academic series called Russian Literature and Philosophy: Ways of Interaction [Russkaya literatura i filosofiya: puti vzaimodeystviya]. The authors focus on the works by those Russian writers and philosophers who provide most vivid examples of interaction between literary and philosophical principles. Such approach is determined by the literature-centricity of Russian culture. Many of the book’s protagonists, e. g. F. Dostoevsky, A. Grigoriev, L. Tolstoy, V. Solovyov, and A. Lo­sev, were writers as well as philosophers. One of the tools suggested for philosophical interpretation of creative writing is the subject-to-subject method developed by T. Kasatkina, which relies on the dialogue between the scholar and the author as equals.