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© 2023 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2023 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Note to the Reader xi
  4. Introduction: Great Conversations and Accursed Questions 1
  5. Part One: The disputants
  6. 1 Russian Literature 41
  7. 2 The Intelligentsia 71
  8. Part Two: Three types of thinker
  9. 3 The Wanderer: Pilgrim of Ideas 99
  10. 4 The Idealist: Incorrigible and Disappointed 121
  11. 5 The Revolutionist: Pure Violence 147
  12. Part Three: Timeless questions
  13. 6 What Can’t Theory Account For? Theoretism and Its Discontents 183
  14. 7 What Is Not to Be Done? Ethics and Materialism 217
  15. 8 Who Is Not to Blame? The Search for an Alibi 257
  16. 9 What Time Isn’t It? Possibilities and Actualities 279
  17. 10 What Don’t We Appreciate? Prosaics Hidden in Plain View 320
  18. 11 What Doesn’t It All Mean? The Trouble with Happiness 353
  19. Conclusion: Into the World Symposium 384
  20. Abbreviations 397
  21. Notes 401
  22. Acknowledgments 461
  23. Index 465
Wonder Confronts Certainty
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https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293434-016

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Note to the Reader xi
  4. Introduction: Great Conversations and Accursed Questions 1
  5. Part One: The disputants
  6. 1 Russian Literature 41
  7. 2 The Intelligentsia 71
  8. Part Two: Three types of thinker
  9. 3 The Wanderer: Pilgrim of Ideas 99
  10. 4 The Idealist: Incorrigible and Disappointed 121
  11. 5 The Revolutionist: Pure Violence 147
  12. Part Three: Timeless questions
  13. 6 What Can’t Theory Account For? Theoretism and Its Discontents 183
  14. 7 What Is Not to Be Done? Ethics and Materialism 217
  15. 8 Who Is Not to Blame? The Search for an Alibi 257
  16. 9 What Time Isn’t It? Possibilities and Actualities 279
  17. 10 What Don’t We Appreciate? Prosaics Hidden in Plain View 320
  18. 11 What Doesn’t It All Mean? The Trouble with Happiness 353
  19. Conclusion: Into the World Symposium 384
  20. Abbreviations 397
  21. Notes 401
  22. Acknowledgments 461
  23. Index 465
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