HWC 205 Study Guide - Final Guide: Roger B. Taney, Emancipation Proclamation, Perspectivism

• School: University of Kansas
• Department: Humanities & Western Civ
• Course: HWC 205
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Western civilization 2: final exam review part 2. Dostoevsky: underground man as a paradoxalist, as an expression of a freudian id. Fits in with slavophiles (big into church and state) Westernizers- socialism, anti-religion, modernization (um is against this) They were suspicious of western culture; emphasized uniqueness of russian character and importance of spirituality via the russian orthodox church. Stressed importance of russia s collectivist past but thought that it was being threatened by destructive western influences and by the administrative policies of the russian government. They emphasized the distinctiveness of russian history and national character, the superior spiritual qualities of the russian orthodox church, and even the advantages of the russian autocracy itself in an idealized patriarchal form. According to them, the central problem of russia was nefarious western influences, especially beginning with the reign of peter the great. They wanted to follow german romantic novels.