Gary Saul Morson – Pray for Chekhov: Or, What Russian Literature Can Teach Conservatives
~A Russell Kirk Lecture at The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics~
American conservatives can learn much from the great literary output of 19th century Russia. Though seemingly distant in time and place, the great Russian novelists faced intellectual and moral circumstances remarkably similar to those we find today in America and in the West generally. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov all wrote in opposition to the powerful ruling class emerging in Russia and the West, the intelligentsia. The revolutionary doctrines of the intelligentsia pointed toward authoritarianism, sought the destruction of individuality and religion, and the imposition of pseudo-scientific doctrines onto human life. The weapon of choice for Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov to combat this was literature—the best means both to appeal to man’s sentiments and reason and to demonstrate their opponents’ utopianism and destructiveness.
A published version of Morson’s lecture can be found at https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/report/pray-chekhov-or-what-russian-literature-can-teach-conservatives
Видео Gary Saul Morson – Pray for Chekhov: Or, What Russian Literature Can Teach Conservatives канала The Heritage Foundation
American conservatives can learn much from the great literary output of 19th century Russia. Though seemingly distant in time and place, the great Russian novelists faced intellectual and moral circumstances remarkably similar to those we find today in America and in the West generally. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov all wrote in opposition to the powerful ruling class emerging in Russia and the West, the intelligentsia. The revolutionary doctrines of the intelligentsia pointed toward authoritarianism, sought the destruction of individuality and religion, and the imposition of pseudo-scientific doctrines onto human life. The weapon of choice for Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov to combat this was literature—the best means both to appeal to man’s sentiments and reason and to demonstrate their opponents’ utopianism and destructiveness.
A published version of Morson’s lecture can be found at https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/report/pray-chekhov-or-what-russian-literature-can-teach-conservatives
Видео Gary Saul Morson – Pray for Chekhov: Or, What Russian Literature Can Teach Conservatives канала The Heritage Foundation
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