In Search of Nature and Consciousness in Andrei Bialobotskii’s Pentateugum
Classical Echoes and Modern Impulses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22112718 |
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| Authors | Erica Camisa Morale (0000-0002-2785-4423, University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Pages | 125-141 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ВИВЛIОθИКА E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-1658 • E-ISSN: 2333-1658 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Main Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21900/j.vivliofika.v11.1425 |
| OpenAlex | W4390024849 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Through close reading and reference to the philosophies of the time, this paper demonstrates how the long poem Pentateugum (1690s) by Andrei Bialobotskii (ca. 1640-1720) offers us a dynamic picture of the tensions —between Classical and Orthodox cultures and between religious and secularized literatures—leading to the East Slavic Enlightenment. According to Andrei Bialobotskii, culture is vain because such is human knowledge. Simultaneously, culture triumphs because, through it, the subject acquires and expresses their consciousness in a summa that comprises the whole history of humankind. In this context, Classical culture provides a model for writing techniques and functions as the highest instance of punished vanity, while expressing the harmony between nature and the individual
Art · Consciousness · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Byzantine Studies and History · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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