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Shapes of Apocalypse

Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,6 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781618118240
33,10 €
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288 Seiten
Mai 2018
Academic Studies Press

Highlights the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, the fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, the concepts of ""end of history"" and ""end of present time"" are specifically examined.

Andrea Oppo (PhD University College Dublin) is associate professor of aesthetics at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia (Italy). He is the author of Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett (2008), Estetiche del negativo. Studi su Dostoevskij, Cechov e Beckett (2009), and numerous articles on Russian religious philosophy and the relationship between philosophy and the arts.