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‘Letters from Russia. Russia in 1839’ (Marquis de Custine). A postmodernist analysis
‘Letters from Russia. Russia in 1839’ (Marquis de Custine). A postmodernist analysis

Author(s): Ştefan Ungurean
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: authority; despotic power; violence; social field; desire

Summary/Abstract: How does a despotic state function? Which is the relationship between the sovereignty's power and the individual? How do the individual's desires integrate in a despotic society's social body? What is the role of violence within the state or the civil society? To what extent does a social fact become a cultural fact? Are all of these facts connected to the tzarist empire's XIX century expansion? These are the questions upon which the current analysis was based.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 49-54
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English