{"product_id":"mimesis-isbn-9781804294895","title":"Mimesis","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe politics of literature in the construction of worlds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Russian Revolution was a literary as well as political upheaval. With a focus on the revolutionary works of Andrei Platonov and the futurist collective Oberiu, leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectations of fiction and poetry. The production of this groundbreaking new work was inextricably interwoven with the political and historical debates of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume expands on Podoroga’s critical exploration of the analytic anthropology of literature. Here he delves into the ways literature can be used in ‘world-building’, both in terms of what happens inside the narrative and how it reflects the external world. He explores the function of the work outside of its time: both as a means to project itself into the future and as a document of a former age. How are we to read the past through these works of the imagination?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introductory essay from the author’s daughter, Ioulia Podoroga.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction: The Analytical Anthropology of Literature by Ioulia Podoroga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I. Eunuch of the Soul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eHomo ex machina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Positions of Reading\u003cbr\u003e2 History as Nature\u003cbr\u003e3 The Inventor of Machines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II. The Fainting of the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Fear of High Noon\u003cbr\u003e1 Alea: A General Theory of Chance\u003cbr\u003e2 Reverse Rotation\u003cbr\u003e3 Conversations: A Community of Friends in Time\"Podoroga has long been heralded as a quasi-patron saint of post-Soviet philosophy.  . . Podoroga liberates classics of Russian literature from questions of historicism or fidelity to an external reality.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMarxism and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eValery Podoroga\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Moscow in 1946 and was a leading figure at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science until his death in 2020. With a particular focus on 19th century Russian literature he developed his thesis of Analytic Anthropology. The author of over 200 articles and ten monographs, he was award the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for literature in 2001.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300878078181,"sku":"NP9781804294895","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804294895.jpg?v=1767732707","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mimesis-isbn-9781804294895","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}