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The New Literary Observer was launched in 1992 as the first post-Soviet journal devoted to literature. Since its inception, the journal has become the leading Russian interdisciplinary publication dedicated to Russian culture in a global context.
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
- articles on the problems, or the history, of the liberal arts and sciences;
- articles devoted to various aspects of the cultural history of Russia and Western Europe;
- unique archive documents (literary texts, letters, memoirs);
- articles, reviews, interviews and essays on issues of contemporary literature;
- thorough bibliographies of works of fiction and the liberal arts and sciences;
- chronicles of scientific and creative life.
contents:
FROM THE EDITORS
THEORY OF NONVIOLENCE: MODERN REFLECTION
- Todd May. What is Nonviolence? (transl. from English by Tatyana Pirusskaya)
- Giorgio Agamben. On the Limits of Violence (transl. from Italian by Sergei Yermakov)
- Judith Butler. The Claim of Non-Violence (transl. from English by Nikolay Protsenko)
- Adriana Cavarero. Judith Butler and the Belligerent Subject (transl. from English by Sofia Porfiryeva)
PHILOSOPHIES OF (NON)VIOLENCE
WAR AND PEACE: (NON)VIOLENCE IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL CATACLYSMS
- Petar Bojanić. What Is “Victory” in the Ethics of War of Orthodox Christianity? (transl. from English by Tatyana Pirusskaya)
- Andrey Serkov. Mercy in Russian Freemasonry: Periods of Peace and War
- Yulia Krasnoselskaya. Non-Resistance to Evil in the Age of Military Alliances (The Franco-Russian Celebrations of 1893 in the Assess- ment of Leo Tolstoy and His Supporters)
- Olga Okhotnikova, Alexander Khryakov. The Atrocities of the Enemy and Our Own Mercy: Russian and German Postcards of the World War I Construct a Nation
- Vladislav Aksenov. From Shame to Internal Emigration: The Emo- tional Reactions of Russian Society to State Violence in the Years of Wars and Revolutions (19th—20th Centuries)
TRADITIONS OF (NON)VIOLENCE IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY
- Svetlana Adonyeva. Support, Secret Alms, and Other Vernacular Practices of the Social Order of Northern Russian Villages
- Olga Skubach. Soft/Hard: W. Tan-Bogoraz and Russian Ethno- graphy at the Turning point of the Imperial and Soviet Eras
- Mikhail Pogorelov. Non-Restraint in Russian Psychiatric Hospitals (1880—1910-s)
- Irina Gordeeva. The Idea of Nonviolent Revolution in the Russian Radical Pacifist Movement of the First Third of the 20th Century
- Olga Rosenblum. “A Good Society Cannot be Built with Bad Methods”: Discussions on (Non)Violence, Politics, and Devildom in Moscow Dissident Circles of the 1960s and 1970-s
(NON)VIOLENCE IN RUSSIAN CULTURE
- Dmitri Kalugin, Boris Maslov. On the Concept of Humanity
- Lena Marasinova. Sovereign’s Mercy in Russia of the 18th Century
- Sergei Polskoi. Clementia Augustae: Mercy and the “Absurd Vow” of Empress
- Pavel Uspenskij, Andrey Fedotov. The Anthropology of a Witness: The Wartime Self of 19th Century in Nikolay Nekrasov’s Poem “Listening to the Horrors of War...”
- Mark Lipovetsky. Two Short Pieces on (Non)violence
- Boris Stepanov, Tatiana Dashkova. The End of Violence? Reflections on the Repressive Past in Thaw Cinema
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Igor Kobylin. Struggle for Life: From Political Demand to Life- Affirming Mania (Review of the book: Butler, Judith. Silanenasiliya: stsepkaetikiipolitiki[The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind]. Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2022.
- Irina Gordeeva. The History of Peace Studies in Russia (Bibliographical Survey)
- Tatyana Venediktova. Empathy: Needle and Thread, Trap and Trail (Review of the books: Veprinska, Anna. EmpathyinContemporary PoetryafterCrisis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; Hogan, Patrick. Lite- ratureandMoralFeeling:ACognitivePoeticsofEthics,Narrative, andEmpathy. Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- Ilaria Aletto. Obsession in the Name of Nonviolence (Review of the book: De Giorgi, Roberta. Storia di un’ossessione: Lev Tolstoj e Vladimir Čertkov. Del Vechhio, 2022)
- Anna Stogova. A Feminist Polyphony of Nonviolence (Review of the book: WomenandNonviolence. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021; TowardsaFeministEthicsofNonviolence. Fordham University Press, 2021)
NONVIOLENCE IN THE ERA OF VIOLENCE? (RETRO REVIEWS)
- Andrei Mitrofanov. Popular Protest in Revolutionary Paris Through the Prism of Nonviolence (Review of the book: Alpaugh, Micah. Non-Violence and the French Revolution: Political Demonstrations in Paris,1787—1795. Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- Evgeny Savitsky. Against Hitler, but Nonviolently: On the Fragile Boundaries of Resistance and Cooperation (Review of the book: Semelin, Jacques. Sans armes face à Hitler: la Résistance civile en Europe[1939—1943]. Payot, 1989)
- Sergei Gogin. After Violence (Review of the book: Herman, Judith. Travmaiistselenie:posledstviyanasiliyaotab’yuzadopolitiches- kogoterrora [Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence— from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror]. Eksmo, 2022)