This study revisits a well-known, but long-ignored Russian literary type—the so-called “superfluous man”—who emerges out of Russia’s growing pains in response to the French Revolution, …
Even Thoreau abandoned
Walden Pond after a couple of years.
In an attempt to resolve the problem of “emanation,” Plotinus counters with the
opposing process of “epistrophe,” or the return to the source.
