

'Wonder Confronts Certainty' — A Conversation with Professor Gary Saul Morson about the Deep Mysteries of Great Russian Literature
Aug 9, 2023
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
The Russian Literary Intellectual Experience
01:32 • 2min
The Dialogues of the Dead
03:14 • 4min
The Overpowering Power of Experience
06:44 • 3min
The Importance of Literature and Philosophy
09:33 • 3min
The Importance of Tsar Alexander the Second
12:07 • 4min
Why Russia Is Different From Western Europe
16:20 • 4min
The Death of Alexander the Second
20:08 • 4min
The Microcosm of Russian Literature
23:41 • 2min
The Differences Between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
25:33 • 4min
The Moral Wrongness of Mass Terror
29:53 • 2min
The Human Propensity to Seize Upon an Idea at the Detriment of Humanity
32:20 • 2min
The Importance of Dialectical Materialism
34:40 • 2min
The Power of Ideology
36:40 • 2min
The Continuity of Russian Literature
39:05 • 3min
Sultanitsen and the Bolshevik Revolution
42:25 • 3min
The Importance of Extremism in Moral Theology
45:08 • 2min
Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate
47:19 • 3min
The Importance of Joy in Life
50:06 • 4min
The Darkness of Love
54:00 • 5min