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"The Siege of Man: Olga Freidenberg's Notes as a Mythopolitical Theory of Stalinism

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"The Siege of Man: Olga Freidenberg's Notes as a Mythopolitical Theory of Stalinism
14.99 €
The classic philologist and cultural theorist Olga Mikhailovna Freidenberg (1890-1955) left a huge corpus of autobiographical "notes" that to this day have not been published. The story of a life that coincided with revolution, two world wars and terror is a domestic chronicle written by a researcher who seeks to understand and explain to the reader of the future the form of government under which she happened to live. Irina Paperno has set herself the task not only of creating a guidebook through the pages of the chronicle, but also of reconstructing the political theory of Stalinism, which O.M. Freidenberg consistently (though not always explicitly) developed in her "Notes" - a theory comparable to that created in a different form by Hannah Arendt. The book is addressed not only to humanities scholars, but also to the general reader who ponders how people live when power penetrates "into the very heart of man, suffocating and haunting him everywhere, even in private, even at night, even in his deepest self." Irina Paperno is a philologist, cultural historian, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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