A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930
Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity

A major history and interpretation of Russian philosophy from 1830 to 1930.

G. M. Hamburg (Edited by), Randall A. Poole (Edited by)

9781107612785, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 May 2013

440 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg

"...finely produced and edited collection.... provide, among other things, a marvelous bibliography—and by the consistently high literary quality of the individual contributions.... this volume has both encyclopedic and monographic dimensions; its overarching argument is thought-provoking for specialists, even as its parts could be used for undergraduate or graduate courses.... It is, in short, a real gift to the field."
--John Randolph, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Slavic Review

The great age of Russian philosophy spans the century between 1830 and 1930 - from the famous Slavophile-Westernizer controversy of the 1830s and 1840s, 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 history and interpretation 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 development of a distinctive Russian tradition of philosophical humanism focused on the defence of human dignity. As this volume shows, the century-long debate over the meaning and grounds of human dignity, freedom and the just society involved thinkers of all backgrounds and positions, transcending easy classification as 'religious' or 'secular'. The debate still resonates strongly today.

List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: the humanist tradition in Russian philosophy G. M. Hamburg and Randall A. Poole
Part I. The Nineteenth Century: 1. Slavophiles, Westernizers, and the birth of Russian philosophical humanism Sergey Horujy
2. Alexander Herzen Derek Offord
3. Materialism and the radical intelligentsia: the 1860s Victoria S. Frede
4. Russian ethical humanism: from populism to neo-idealism Thomas Nemeth
Part II. Russian Metaphysical Idealism in Defense of Human Dignity: 5. Boris Chicherin and human dignity in history G. M. Hamburg
6. Vladimir Solov'?v's philosophical anthropology: autonomy, dignity, perfectibility Randall A. Poole
7. Russian panpsychism: Kozlov, Lopatin, Losskii James P. Scanlan
Part III. Humanity and Divinity in Russian Religious Philosophy after Solov'?v: 8. A Russian cosmodicy: Sergei Bulgakov's religious philosophy Paul Valliere
9. Pavel Florenskii's trinitarian humanism Steven Cassedy
10. Semën Frank's expressivist humanism Philip J. Swoboda
Part IV. Freedom and Human Perfectibility in the Silver Age: 11. Religious humanism in the Russian silver age Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
12. Russian liberalism and the philosophy of law Frances Nethercott
13. Imagination and ideology in the new religious consciousness Robert Bird
14. Eschatology and hope in silver age thought Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Part V. Russian Philosophy in Revolution and Exile: 15. Russian Marxism Andrzej Walicki
16. Adventures in dialectic and intuition: Shpet, Il'in, Losev Philip T. Grier
17. Nikolai Berdiaev and the philosophical tasks of the emigration Stuart Finkel
18. Eurasianism: affirming the person in an 'Era of Faith' Martin Beisswenger
Afterword: on persons as open-ended ends-in-themselves (the view from two novelists and two critics) Caryl Emerson
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], History of Western philosophy [HPC], Russian Revolution [HBTV4]