A History of Russian Philosophy 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity PDF
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This page intentionally left blank A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY 1830–1930 ThegreatageofRussianphilosophyspansthecenturybetween1830and1930– from the famous Slavophile–Westernizer controversy of the 1830s and1840s, through the “Silver Age” of Russian culture at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the formation of a Russian “philosophical emigration” in the wake of the Russian Revolution. This volume is a major new history and interpret- ation of Russian philosophy in this period. Eighteen chapters (plus a substantial introduction and afterword) discuss Russian philosophy’s main figures, schools, and controversies, while simultaneously pursuing a common central theme: the developmentofadistinctiveRussiantraditionofphilosophicalhumanismfocused onthedefenseofhumandignity.Asthisvolumeshows,thecentury-longdebate over the meaning and grounds of human dignity, freedom, and the just society involvedthinkersofallbackgroundsandpositions,transcendingeasyclassification as“religious”or“secular.”Thedebatestillresonatesstronglytoday. g.m. hamburgistheOthoM.BehrProfessorofHistoryatClaremontMcKenna College. He has written, translated and edited many books in Russian history, including Politics of the Russian Nobility, 1881–1905 (1984), Boris Chicherin and EarlyRussianLiberalism,1828–1866(1992),Liberty,Equality,andtheMarket:Selected EssaysofBorisChicherin(1998),andRussian–MuslimConfrontationintheCaucasus: Alternative Visions of the Conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830–1859 (2004)(withJ.ThomasSandersandErnestTucker). randall a. pooleisAssociateProfessorofHistoryattheCollegeofSt.Scholas- tica. He has translated and edited Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (2003) and written numerous articles and book chapters in Russian intellectualhistoryandphilosophy. A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930 Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity edited by G.M. HAMBURG AND RANDALL A. POOLE cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521884501 (cid:1)c CambridgeUniversityPress2010 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2010 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn978-0-521-88450-1hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. To George L. Kline CONTENTS Listofcontributors page xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The humanist tradition in Russian philosophy 1 g.m. hamburg and randall a. poole I The Nineteenth Century 1 Slavophiles, Westernizers, and the birth of Russian philosophical humanism 27 sergey horujy, translated by patrick lally michelson 2 Alexander Herzen 52 derek offord 3 Materialism and the radical intelligentsia: the 1860s 69 victoria s. frede 4 Russian ethical humanism: from populism to neo-idealism 90 thomas nemeth II Russian Metaphysical Idealism in Defense of Human Dignity 5 Boris Chicherin and human dignity in history 111 g.m. hamburg 6 Vladimir Solov(cid:1)e¨v’s philosophical anthropology: autonomy, dignity, perfectibility 131 randall a. poole vii viii Contents 7 Russian Panpsychism: Kozlov, Lopatin, Losskii 150 james p. scanlan III Humanity and Divinity in Russian Religious Philosophy after Solov(cid:1)e¨v 8 A Russian cosmodicy: Sergei Bulgakov’s religious philosophy 171 paul valliere 9 Pavel Florenskii’s trinitarian humanism 190 steven cassedy 10 Seme¨n Frank’s expressivist humanism 205 philip j. swoboda IV Freedom and Human Perfectibility in the Silver Age 11 Religious humanism in the Russian Silver Age 227 bernice glatzer rosenthal 12 Russian liberalism and the philosophy of law 248 frances nethercott 13 Imagination and ideology in the new religious consciousness 266 robert bird 14 Eschatology and hope in Silver Age thought 285 judith deutsch kornblatt V Russian Philosophy in Revolution and Exile 15 Russian Marxism 305 andrzej walicki 16 Adventures in dialectic and intuition: Shpet, Il(cid:1)in, Losev 326 philip t. grier 17 Nikolai Berdiaev and the philosophical tasks of the emigration 346 stuart finkel 18 Eurasianism: affirming the person in an “era of faith” 363 martin beisswenger
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