The discovery of chance : the life and thought of Alexander Herzen / Aileen M. Kelly.
"Alexander Herzen--philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century--was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece "My Past and Thoughts" and as the father of Ru...
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Table of Contents:
- Who was Herzen?
- Russia and the romantic revolution
- A romantic youth
- A revolution in science
- Science and history
- An education in method
- Science and Saint-Simonism
- Prison and exile
- Awakening
- The discovery of chance
- Nature and time
- Man in the middle
- A conservative revolution
- Herzen and Proudhon
- Toward another shore
- View from the other shore
- The living truth
- In defence of inconsistency
- What is history?
- The Polish rising
- True nihilism
- Last years.