{"product_id":"disenchanted-wanderer-glenn-cronin-9781501760181","title":"Disenchanted Wanderer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisenchanted Wanderer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is the first comprehensive English-language study in over half a century of the life and ideas of Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev (1831-1891), one of the most important thinkers in nineteenth-century Russia on political, social, and religious matters.\u003c\/b\u003e Glenn Cronin gives the reader a broad overview of Leontiev's life and varied career as novelist, army doctor, diplomat, journalist, censor, and, late in life, ordained monk. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviewing Leontiev's creative work and his writing on aesthetics and literary criticism--notable figures such as Belinsky, Turgenev, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy appear--Cronin goes on to examine Leontiev's sociopolitical writing and his theory of the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations, placing his thought in the context of his contemporaries and predecessors including Hegel, Herzen, and Nietzsche, as well as Danilevsky, Pobedonostsev, and other major figures in Slavophile and Russian nationalist circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCronin also examines Leontiev's religious views, including his ascetic brand of Orthodoxy, informed by his experiences of the monastic communities of Mount Athos and OptinaPustyn, and his late attraction to Roman Catholicism under the influence of the theologian Vladimir Solovyev. \u003ci\u003eDisenchanted Wanderer\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with a review of Leontiev's prophetic vision for the twentieth century and his conviction that, after a period of wars, socialism would triumph under the banner of a new Constantine the Great. Cronin considers how far this vision foretold the rise to power of Joseph Stalin, an aspect of Leontiev's legacy that previously had not received the attention it merits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElevating Leontiev to his proper place in the Russian literary pantheon, Cronin demonstrates that the man was not, as is often maintained, an amoralist and a political reactionary but rather a deeply moral thinker and a radical conservative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Glenn Cronin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501760181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501760181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2022","brand":"Glenn Cronin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995976794367,"sku":"9781501760181","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_593ac986-11a9-43c6-9a45-8e57a914ff42.jpg?v=1683338981","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disenchanted-wanderer-glenn-cronin-9781501760181","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}