From Chaadayev to Solovyov

The book on the history of Russian philosophical thought of the nineteenth century deals with six important representatives in the sharply present context of the ideological dispute between East and West. The author analyses Russian worldviews which advocate dialogue between Russia and the West, or proclaim the conflict between them.

Autorentext

Grzegorz Przebinda is full professor at the Jagiellonian University and Carpathian State University in Krosno, Poland. His chief areas of academic interest include Russian philology, the history of ideas, translation, and the culture and history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Peter Chaadayev: Russian Apologist of Catholic Europe

Chapter 2: Constants and Variables in the World of Chaadayev's Ideas after 1830

Chapter 3: Alexander Herzen Meeting the West: Five Years of Creative Turmoil (1847-1852)

Chapter 4: What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky: An Attempt at "Non-revolutionary" Interpretation

Chapter 5: Dostoevsky on immortality of the soul and unearthly Paradise

Chapter 6: Konstantin Leontiev's Inhuman Christianity

Chapter 7: Ecumenical thought of Vladimir Solovyov: The East and West of Europe Brought Closer

Chapter 8: Jews and Poles in the ecumenical thought of Vladimir Solovyov

Chapter 9: Between history and the Apocalypse: The last ten years of Solovyov