The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander HerzenAlexander Herzen—philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century—was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and Thoughts and as the father of Russian socialism, his contributions to the history of ideas defy easy categorization because they are so numerous. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called “the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought.” |
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Chapter 3 A Romantic Youth | 24 |
Chapter 4 A Revolution in Science | 35 |
Chapter 5 Science and History | 54 |
Chapter 6 An Education in Method | 67 |
Chapter 7 Science and SaintSimonism | 88 |
Chapter 8 Prison and Exile | 119 |
Chapter 15 Toward Another Shore | 322 |
Chapter 16 View from the Other Shore | 340 |
Chapter 17 The Living Truth | 363 |
Chapter 18 In Defense of Inconsistency | 382 |
Chapter 19 What Is History? | 412 |
Chapter 20 The Polish Uprising | 452 |
Chapter 21 True Nihilism | 474 |
Chapter 22 The Last Years | 500 |
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