Philosophy in Russia : from Herzen to Lenin and Berdyaev / by Frederick C. Copleston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Copleston, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), 1907-1994.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Russian--History.

Philosophy, Russian.

Communism--Soviet Union.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tunbridge Wells, Kent : Search Press ; Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.

Summary:

Philosophy in Russia covers its subject broadly and in detail from the eighteenth century to Lenin and beyond into the post-Stalin period. It offers a continuous history of the development of philosophical thought in Russia, and portraits of individual and influential thinkers. The author devotes careful analysis to radicals such as Bakunin, Herzen, Chernyshevsky and Lavrov, and to the Marxists such as Plekhanov and Lenin. He also discusses the thought of writers such as Kireevsky, Leontiev and Solovyev, and examines the philosophically relevant ideas of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He also discusses Russian thinkers in exile, such as Berdyaev, Frank, N. O. Lossky and Shestov.For historical reasons philosophical thought in Russia has tended to become socially or politically committed thought. To what extent genuine philosophical thought has proved to be compatible with the monopoly enjoyed by Marxism-Leninism in the fields of education and publishing is a crucial question discussed in this authoritative study.

Contents:

Contents; Author's Preface; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2. CHAADAEV: RUSSIA AND THE WEST; Chapter 3. IVAN KIREEVSKY AND INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE; Chapter 4. FROM RECONCILIATION WITH REALITY TO REVOLUTION; Chapter 5. THE NEW MEN; Chapter 6. PETER LAVROV AND THE SUBJECTIVE METHOD; Chapter 7. DOSTOEVSKY AND PHILOSOPHY; Chapter 8. MEANING IN LIFE AND HISTORY; Chapter 9. RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY: VLADIMIR SOLOVYEV; Chapter 10. MARXISM IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA (1): PLEKHANOV; Chapter 11. MARXISM IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA (2): LENIN; Chapter 12. MARXISM IN THE SOVIET UNION; Chapter 13. PHILOSOPHERS IN EXILE (1)

Chapter 14. PHILOSOPHERS IN EXILE (2)Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-71020-6

9786612710209

1-4411-2990-1

OCLC:

664232768