The Artist-Genius in Petr Suvchinskii's Eurasianist Philosophy of History: The Case of Igor' Stravinskii.

This article focuses on the thought of the intellectual, art critic and musicologist Petr Suvchinskii, a founding member of interwar Eurasianism. It reconstructs the main points of Suvchinskii's personal Eurasianist philosophy of history, and analyses the special place that his friend and collaborator Igor Stravinsku held in it. Suvchinskii's views are put into the context of the broader intellectual milieu (the ideas of Henri Bergson, the Prague Linguistic Circle, Russian religious thinkers and Mikhail Bakhtin), and their affinity with Eurasianist 'structuralism' is explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]