What is characteristic of the Russian consciousness: catholicity and spontaneity (as is commonly believed) or, on the contrary, individualism and rationality? Arguing with established concepts, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Nikolai Ilyin offers his own view on the history of Russian philosophy, linking it not to the Silver Age, but referring to the half-forgotten names of Ivan Kireevsky, Apollon Grigoriev and Nikolai Strakhov.
What is characteristic of the Russian consciousness: catholicity and spontaneity (as is commonly believed) or, on the contrary, individualism and rationality? Arguing with established concepts, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Nikolai Ilyin offers his own view on the history of Russian philosophy, linking it not with the Silver Age (Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov), but referring to the half-forgotten names of Ivan Kireevsky, Apollon Grigoriev and Nikolai Strakhov. And the point is not at all that some are Westerners, while others are Slavophiles: the author convincingly criticizes the real Slavophiles (Aksakov and Khomyakov), as well as attempts to reduce Russian philosophy to Orthodoxy. Ilyin considers the main thing in Russian philosophy to be its nationally organic (as opposed to supposedly universal, but in fact averaged-cosmopolitan) character. And, ignoring dubious associations, he runs the risk of calling the corresponding direction in philosophy “national-personalism”.
Iris-press, 608 p.
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