In Marx`s shadow knowledge, power, and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia

Includes indexes.

The sickle, the hammer, and the typewriter -- Ideas against ideocracy: the Platonic drama of Russian thought / Mikhail Epstein -- Asking for more: finding utopia in the critical sociology of the Budapest school and the Praxis movement / Jeffrey Murer -- Aesthetics: a modus vivendi in Eastern Europe? / Letitia Guran -- Changing perceptions of Pavel Florensky in Russian and Soviet scholarship / Clemena Antonova -- Heretics -- The totalitarian languages of utopia and dystopia: Fidelius and Havel / Veronika Tuckerová -- Philosophy and martyrdom: the case of Patočka / Costica Bradatan -- Anticommunist orientalism: shifting boundaries of Europe in dissident writing / Natasa Kovacevic -- In search of a (new) mission -- Somatic nationalism: theorizing post-Soviet ethnicity in Russia / Serguei Alex. Oushakine -- Balkanism and postcolonilaism, or, On the beauty of the airplane view / Maria Todorova -- Anxious intellectuals: framing the nation as a class in Belarus / Elena Gapova -- Reinventing hope -- The demise of Leninism and the future of liberal values / Vladimir Tismaneanu -- "Politics of authenticity" and/or civil society / Ivars Ijabs -- Mihai Șora: a philosopher of dialogue and hope / Aurelian Crăiuțu.