Russian Philosophy, Volume 1: The Beginnings of Russian Philosophy; The Slavophiles; The Westernizers

Title: Russian Philosophy, Volume 1: The Beginnings of Russian Philosophy; The Slavophiles; The Westernizers
Author: James M Edie
ISBN: 9780870492006
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1976
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 456
Section: Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
Publisher Description: Russian philosophy begins through the impregnation of the ancient Byzantine tradition of Old Russia by the Western thought of the French Enlightenment, and then by German Romanticism. The first original Russian philosopher, Gregory Skovoroda, the "Russian Socrates," was followed by the early philosophy of history and culture, Alexander Radishchev and Peter Chasadayev. The fateful break of Russian philosophiers into two opposed camps of the Slavophiles was accomplished by the middle of the nineteenth century.