The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen
The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought. For Herzen, history, like Darwinian nature, was an improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance.
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The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen
The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought. For Herzen, history, like Darwinian nature, was an improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance.
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The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

by Aileen M. Kelly
The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

by Aileen M. Kelly

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The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought. For Herzen, history, like Darwinian nature, was an improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance.

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ISBN-13: 9780674969414
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 05/09/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 5 MB

Table of Contents

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Who Was Herzen? Chapter 2. Russia and the Romantic Revolution Chapter 3. A Romantic Youth Chapter 4. A Revolution in Science Chapter 5. Science and History Chapter 6. An Education in Method Chapter 7. Science and Saint-Simonism Chapter 8. Prison and Exile Chapter 9. Awakening Chapter 10. The Discovery of Chance Chapter 11. From Bacon to Feuerbach: Nature and Time Chapter 12. Man in the Middle Chapter 13. A Conservative Revolution Chapter 14. A Glowing Footprint: Herzen and Proudhon Chapter 15. Toward Another Shore Chapter 16. View from the Other Shore Chapter 17. The Living Truth Chapter 18. In Defense of Inconsistency Chapter 19. What Is History? Chapter 20. The Polish Uprising Chapter 21. True Nihilism Chapter 22. The Last Years Epilogue Notes Illustration Credits Index
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