Aleksei Gastev and the Metallization of the Revolutionary Body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4215754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rolf Hellebust (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 500-518 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2500927 |
| OpenAlex | W2330739353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
Since Marx was strong on criticizing capitalism, not so strong on the practical mechanics of revolution, and rather wobbly on the communist future itself, we cannot blame his Soviet followers if their ultimate goal always remained a religious mystery, veiled by the pseudoscience of political dogma. The veil enhances the mystery; it obscures the fact that thereisa mystery-that the real transformation of society into Utopia and the individual into unfetteredhomo laboranscannot be described in scientific language at all but can only be symbolized.This becomes clear when we move from politics to art, to the sphere of culture dominated by symbolic language. Despite its debt to the explicit Utopian tradition of Chernyshevskii and the nineteenthcentury radicals, Soviet literature limits itself to an exclusively symbolic depiction of the flowering of communism. In Christianity, a transformation of analogous importance is symbolized by the bread and wine of the Eucharist
Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · Art history · Capitalism · Christianity · Communism · Feudalism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Utopia · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Soviet and Russian History · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |