A Russian Mason on the Paths of his Native Culture: The Case Study of Nicolas Novikov
Keywords:
russian culture, russian intelligentsia, russian masonSynopsis
Małgorzata Abassy’s book is a useful and clever analysis in which an intellectual story of a Russian thinker becomes a material for a case study that strengthens a broader reflection about the transformation of seemingly unchangeable patterns of Russian culture.
A fragment of a review written by dr hab. Joachim Diec, prof. UJ
Malgorzata Abassy displays profound knowledge of her research subject; she refers to numerous primary sources and she analyses extensively the tangle of the old and new patterns of culture in Nicolas Novikov’s writings. The Author is consistent in her description of the differences in the understanding of a citizen’s freedom between the court and the intelligentsia; the contrast between the two world views: the imperial one and that of the Enlightenment.
A fragment of a review written by prof. dr hab. Jerzy Kapuścik
Chapters
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction .......... 9
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Chapter I. The Patterns of Russian Culture: “The Orthodox Church” and “The Empire”The victims of Table of Ranks and the Russian nobility in the 18th century .......... 21
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Chapter II. Masonic lodges in RussiaCatherine the Great and her attitude towards Masonic anthroposophy and theosophy .......... 43
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Chapter III. Novikov and MasonsRussian intelligentsia in search of tools for developing the society .......... 79
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Chapter IV. Man – society – stateOld and new patterns of Russian culture in the works of N. I. Novikov .......... 103
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Conclusion .......... 175
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Bibliography .......... 179
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Indexes .......... 191
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Biographical note .......... 197
