Иррациональное в русской культуре: Сборник статей

Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2020.

Academic editor: Ю. Маннхерц

Under the general editorship: Ю. Маннхерц

Compiler: Ю. Маннхерц

This collection is focused on the approaches of contemporaries to the irrational in Russian culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. The authors analyze how theologians, doctors, sociologists, poets, composers, musical critics, bureaucrats and psychiatrists considered such phenomena as aparitions, miraculous healings, trance, dreams, inspiration, musical extasis, madness, cruelty, and war-periods destitution. They juxtapose the views "from within", i.e. of those who experienced such states of consciousness, with the views "from outside", i.e. with reactions of Church, state and academic authorities, who found it necessary to explain these phenomena if not to manage with them. Russin experience of the "encounters with the irrational" is considered here in a wider European context, and this allows to reject the well-known opinion that Russian culture is allegedly especially inclined to irrational states.

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Сумасшествие, слабоумие или социальный невроз? Поэт Александр Квашнин-Самарин

Maiofis M., В кн.: Иррациональное в русской культуре: Сборник статей.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. С. 101–137.

This article, for the first time, reconstructs the biographical history of a dilettante writer Alexander Kvashnin-Samarin (1809-1884?). In January, 1837, the Emperor's court servant Zavitaev wrote a delation to the 3rd Department of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (Russian secret police) informing that retired lieutenant Kvashnin-Samarin had written a politically reprehensible poem. After an investigation Kvashnin-Samarin was several times ...

Added: November 2, 2020

Keywords: altered states of consciousness, измененные состояния сознания, history of Russian culture, рациональное и иррациональное, history of psychiatry, российская психиатрия, the irrational, русская культура 19-20 вв.