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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology de Daniel J. Mahoney

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology: 20th Century Political Thinkers

Autor Daniel J. Mahoney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2001

Observăm în volumul Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn de Daniel J. Mahoney o abordare riguroasă a operei marelui scriitor rus, privită nu doar ca literatură de mărturie, ci ca un pilon fundamental al filozofiei politice contemporane. Inclusă în seria 20th Century Political Thinkers, lucrarea propune o exegeză a criticii soljenițîniene la adresa totalitarismului comunist, demonstrând cum autorul rus a reușit să depășească constrângerile ideologice pentru a recupera reperele naturii umane și ale moralității creștine. Considerăm că forța acestui studiu rezidă în capacitatea lui Mahoney de a integra gândirea lui Soljenițîn într-un dialog fertil cu tradiția occidentală, de la Aristotel la Tocqueville.

Structura volumului urmărește o progresie logică, de la necesitatea de a-l trata pe Soljenițîn cu seriozitate intelectuală, până la analize punctuale ale conceptelor de „pocăință” și „auto-limitare” aplicate la nivel național. Capitolele dedicate liberalismului lui Stolîpin și apărării autoguvernării locale dezvăluie un Soljenițîn mai puțin cunoscut: gânditorul care caută soluții instituționale concrete pentru libertatea post-totalitară. Această lucrare completează perspectiva oferită de The Other Solzhenitsyn, tot de Daniel J. Mahoney, adăugând o dimensiune analitică axată pe fundamentele filozofice și teologice care susțin critica politică a scriitorului.

Poziționată în contextul operei lui Daniel J. Mahoney, care a explorat anterior gândirea unor figuri precum Raymond Aron sau Pierre Manent în Natural Law and Human Rights – Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, această monografie continuă preocuparea autorului pentru recuperarea rațiunii practice și a virtuților politice în fața modernității ideologice. Este o lectură esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care experiența lagărului a fost transformată într-o viziune despre eternitate și politică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780742521131
ISBN-10: 0742521133
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 149 x 227 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:0200
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Seria 20th Century Political Thinkers

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă pentru cititorii interesați de filozofie politică și istoria ideilor. Daniel J. Mahoney oferă o cheie de lectură academică ce transformă imaginea lui Soljenițîn din simplu disident în teoretician politic de calibru mondial. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a criticilor aduse modernității și o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care valorile clasice și creștine pot reconstrui o societate după prăbușirea ideologiilor totalitare.

Despre autor

Daniel J. Mahoney este profesor de științe politice la Assumption College și un renumit specialist în gândirea politică franceză și rusă. Laureat al prestigiosului Prix Raymond Aron, Mahoney s-a impus în mediul academic prin studii fundamentale despre Raymond Aron, Bertrand de Jouvenel și Charles de Gaulle. Experiența sa în analizarea liberalismului conservator și a rezistenței în fața totalitarismului îl face unul dintre cei mai avizați comentatori ai operei lui Soljenițîn, reușind să pună în dialog valorile occidentale cu spiritul est-european în contextul seriei 20th Century Political Thinkers.

Descriere

In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the political condition of modern man through an exegesis and analysis of Solzhenitsyn's work. Mahoney demonstrates the tremendous, yet often unappreciated, impact of Solzhenitsyn's writing on twentieth century thinking through an examination of the writer's profoundly important critique of communist totalitarianism in a judicious and original mix of western and Russian, Christian and classical wisdom.

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Introductory Note: Taking Solzhenitsyn Seriously
Chapter 2 The One True Progress: Solzhenitsyn's Alternative to Modern Liberalism
Chapter 3 The Experience of Totalitarianism and the Recovery of Nature
Chapter 4 True and False Liberalism: Stolypin and His Enemies in August 1914
Chapter 5 The Ascent from Modernity:"Repentance and Self-Limitation in the Life of Nations"
Chapter 6 The Physiognomy of Liberty: Solzhenitsyn's "Tocquevillian" Defense of Local Self-Government
Chapter 7 Concluding Reflection: The Soul between Politics and Eternity

Recenzii

In the natural progression of the ripening of Solzhenitsyn criticism, what has been needed is a book by a political theorist who is at home in the vocabulary of political philosophy and fully familiar with the categories and concepts of that field. Daniel Mahoney fills this niche and his study advances Solzhenitsyn criticism not by small or even medium sized increments, but by a quantum leap forward. Mahoney's book will stand as the book on Solzhenitsyn's politics, precisely because it does not treat politics as a self-contained and free-standing entity, i.e. it does not tear the politics out of the overarching moral vision. This book is simply superb.
Everything Daniel Mahoney writes is worth reading and this book, in particular, shows how Solzhenitsyn's vision is even more relevant today than it was in the dark days of the Soviet Occupation.
Excellent new book.
Mahoney reintroduces Solzhenitsyn as a political thinker who deserves to be included in the ranks of Raymond Aron, Jacques Maritain, Martin Buber, and John Dewey, among others.
Through its penetrating and comprehensive assessment of Solzhenitsyn's significance, Professor Mahoney's book is a lesson in human greatness as well as a powerful contribution to our understanding of modern tyranny.
In an age of uninhibited materialism and crass popular culture, where the demands of the fast-paced 'information age' make us so busy we can entirely forget the spiritual realm, Mahoney's book on Solzhenitsyn is a refreshment for the soul. It reminds us that the most important possession of our time on earth is our character, and our character cannot be properly tended unless we allow it to pursue its longing for the true and eternal.
Even before Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn confessed that in his years of exile in the United States he had not taken up our habit of 'chatting at filling stations,' Americans had decided to disdain him. He was some sort of autocrat or authoritarian, a theocrat, a self-ordained prophet, not to mention an ingrate who had unkind things to say about America and other western nations. If Daniel Mahoney's book does not cause us to rethink our opinions about Solzhenitsyn, it's hard to imagine what could. Mahoney's open-minded and manifestly intelligent analysis of a wide array of his writings shows Solzhenitsyn to be an ardent, albeit measured and reasoned defender of constitutionalism and democratic freedom. He is also, as Mahoney puts it, 'a postmodern foundationalist,' a thoughtful man who did not begin a Christian, but whose experience and reflections on human nature-his 'anthropological conclusions'-led him to its embrace. Not ignorance of the West, of its politics and way of life and of its philosophic underpinnings, but precisely a profound understanding of these enables Mahoney's Solzhenitsyn to speak to the mind and heart of every human being.
Solzhenitsyn's literary genius as a chronicler of the totalitarian past is universally recognized. Daniel Mahoney persuasively suggests that the great Russian witness and writer is also a serious political philosopher with important things to say about the democratic future.
Mahoney offers a splendid and always reliable analysis of the political, philosophical, and moral dimensions of Solzhenitsyn's writings which demonstrates that contrary to widespread journalistic assumptions, Solzhenitsyn is deeply indebted to a long line of classic thinkers going all the way back to Plato and Aristotle.
Mahoney provides the most fair-minded and attractive account of Solzhenitsyn's political thought to date.
Mahoney understands Solzhenitsyn as very few do, and he orients the great writer for us all. This is a book that should destroy the myth of Solzhenitsyn as an autocrat, a theocrat, a right-winger, etc. And it is as exquisitely written as it is conceived. A real pearl of a volume.
Mahoney has written the book about the politics of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
This very remarkable and most timely book differs from others on Solzhenitsyn by highlighting his 'critique of ideology' and his 'recovery of the 'natural world.' Mahoney's exceptionally penetrating, wonderfully judcious, and always accessible analysis is on the cutting edge of thought today.
Solzhenitsyn presents quite a challenge to anyone attempting a comprehensive assessment of his thought. Daniel Mahoney meets the challenge squarely in his excellent new book.
A much-needed meditation on the limit of politics, through a study of the writings of Solzhenitsyn.
By allowing Solzhenitsyn to speak above the din of those who dismiss him, Mahoney has given us a great gift. His interpretations of Solzhenitsyn's speeches, essays, and books are especially incisive in recognizing Solzhenitsyn's significane for political philosophy, and political philosophy's postmodern task of grappling with ideological evil.