Russian philosophy

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Russian philosophy is a broad field, little known to most non-Russians, dominated by religious and humanistic figures such as Vladimir Soloviev and social or political philosophers such as Vladimir Lenin. Berdyaev is among the many famous Russian philosophers of the 20th century.

Contents 1 Major Thinkers 1.1 Russian Enlightenment 1.2 Slavophilism and Pochvennichestvo 1.3 Russian cosmism 1.4 Mysticism 1.5 Liberalism 1.6 Anarchism 1.7 Socialism and Marxism 1.8 Christianity 1.9 Existentialism 1.10 Aesthetics 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Major Thinkers

[edit] Russian Enlightenment

• Hryhori Skovoroda (1722 - 1794)
• Mikhail Shcherbatov (1733 - 1790)
• Alexander Radishchev (1749 - 1802)

[edit] Slavophilism and Pochvennichestvo

• Aleksey Khomyakov (1804 - 1860)
• Nikolay Danilevsky (1822 - 1885)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
• Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827 - 1907)
• Konstantin Leontiev (1831 - 1891)

[edit] Russian cosmism

• Nikolay Fyodorov (1828 - 1906)
• Vladimir Vernadsky (1863 – 1945)
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857 - 1935)

[edit] Mysticism

• Madame Blavatsky (1831 - 1891)
• G. I. Gurdjieff (1872 - 1949)
• P. D. Ouspensky (1878 - 1947)

[edit] Liberalism

• Petr Chaadaev (1794 - 1856)
• Boris Chicherin (1828 - 1904)

[edit] Anarchism

• Mikhail Bakunin (1814 – 1876)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
• Peter Kropotkin (1842 - 1921)

[edit] Socialism and Marxism

• Alexander Herzen (1812 - 1870)
• George Plekhanov (1856 - 1918)
• Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924)
• Alexander Bogdanov (1873 - 1928)

[edit] Christianity

• Vladimir Soloviev (1853 - 1900)
• Vasily Rozanov (1856 - 1919)
• Sergei Bulgakov (1871 - 1944)
• Pavel Florensky (1882 - 1937)
• Ivan Ilyin (1883 - 1954)

[edit] Existentialism

• Lev Shestov (1866 - 1938)
• Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 - 1948)

[edit] Aesthetics

• N. G. Chernyshevsky (1828 - 1889)
• Alexei Losev (1893 - 1988)
• Mikhail Bakhtin (1895 - 1975)
• Leonid Stolovitsh (*1939)

[edit] See also

• Philosophy in the Soviet Union
• Lev Gumilev
• Dmitry Likhachev
• Vasily Nalimov

[edit] External links

• Brief overview of Russian philosophy
• PHILTAR - Comprehensive web site with links to texts and resources
• Russian philosophy page at IEP
• Directory of links to Russian philosophers, mostly in Russian
• Routledge entry
• Konstantin Leontiev
• Sergius Bulgakov Society - Extensive collection of links to Bulgakov resources
• Bulgakov LiveJournal - Collected materials of particular relevance to Russian religious philosophy

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