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Russia, Poland and universal regeneration. Studies on Russian and Polish thought of the romantic epoch

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    Andrzej Walicki.
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    Preface. I. Alexander Herzen's "Russian socialism" as a respause to Polish revolutionary slavophilism: 1. Introductory remarks. 2. The slavophile matifs in Polish thought of the first half of the nineteenth century. 3. Herzen's encourters with Mickiewicz. 4. "Russian socialism" and the "Russo-Polish revolutionary alliance". 5. Concluding remarks. - II. Alexander Herzen, August Cieszkowski, and the "philosophy of action": 1. Introductory remarks: the first encounters. 2. Cieszkowski and Herzen as "philosophers of action". 3. Two visions of the "new beginning". - III. Adam Mickiewicz's Paris lectures and Russian Slavophilism: 1. Defining the problem. 2. The critique of rationalism in philosophy and society. 3. The romanticism of tradition and the romanticism of charisma. 4. The idea of charismatic leadership as the structural pivot of the Paris lectures. 5. The "Messianization" of the Russian Slavophile tradition. - IV. Adam Gurawski: Polish romantic nationalism, Russian panslavism, and American "Manifest Destiny": 1. Gurawski's revolutionary patriotism. 2. The reasons for apostosy. 3. The theory and practice of panslavism. 4. The new image of Russia. 5. The United States of the "Old World".


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