Institute of Sociology
of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Davydov A.P. The Soul of Gogol. Experience of Sociocultural analyses. Second edition. M.: Novyi Khronograph. 2018. 264 p.



Davydov A.P. The Soul of Gogol. Experience of Sociocultural analyses. Second edition. M.: Novyi Khronograph. 2018. 264 p.
ISBN 978-5-94881-403-2

Posted on site: 18.09.18

 


Abstract

This book is about the internal world of Gogol, the soul of a writer-preacher, logic of his thinking. Gogol here is a story teller charmed by life and through phenomenon of life burst to its sense. The creator of immortal image of «humble folk» and the idea of city as the world evil. An analyst of the divine and human. A preacher of patriarch values and apostle of cultural antiquity.  An fearless modernist and reformer of values of Russian culture from the position of personality. Images of Gogol collected in the book are linked by his suffering soul and one line going through all his life – incapability to overcome internal division between understanding necessity to change himself and incapability to change himself adequately. In this tragedy the soul of both – Gogol and Russia. The book is addressed to sociologist, philosophers, culturologists, psykhologists and broad but prepared readers. The book can be a handbook for students and teachers in university courses on social philosophy, study of religion, culture and «Russian literature as a philosophy».

Content (in russ)


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