Caryl Emerson

Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism

Arts & Literature

Afterword

(wrote the afterword)

Evgenii Trubetskoi

Philosophy

“This is a book, and a biography, that beautifully complements the first volume in the Ex Oriente Lux series, on Russian religious philosophy and post-secularism. Our modern world cannot go back to an unmitigated faith culture and should not wish to. But we need the prudent, integral example of Evgenii Trubetskoi: university professor and philosopher of law, connoisseur of color in the Orthodox icon, devout but not uncritical biographer of Vladimir Soloviev, political activist—but always with the understanding that no one side controls the truth, and no policy can be allowed to undermine human dignity.”

Immigrant on Earth

Philosophy

“These are fragments, perhaps even of a Romantic-era type, but more disciplined, more spiritual and scriptural, with an overlay of awe and its unexpected renewability.”

Seven Russian Archetypes

History & Biography

“Can we avoid transforming national archetypes into unjust stereotypes? Svetozar Poštiæ believes we can, if we attend closely to origins and myth. Of his seven Russian archetypes, five—the Fool, Rebel, Mother, Peasant, and Civic Intellectual—overlap with the catalogues of many other cultures, although here they receive vivid Russian Orthodox backstories. The Victim and the Wanderer are outliers. Their blend of humility, piety, and messianic territorial imperialism is a provocative lens on today’s conflicted world.”