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Andrzej Walicki. A History of Russian Thought.

Biblioteca / 1970-1979

Andrzej Walicki. A History of Russian Thought. From the Enlightenment to Marxism.  

Stanford University Press, 1979.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.

xvii, 456 páginas.

Edición original, Rosyjska filozofia i myśl społeczna od oświecenia do marksizmu. Varsovia: Wiedza Powszechna, 1973.

Traducción: Hilda Andrews-Rusiecka.

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION

PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION

1 – TRENDS IN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT

Catherine II and Enlightenment Philosophy

The Emergence of Russian Enlightenment Philosophy

Nikolai Novikov and Freemasonry

The Aristocratic Opposition

2 – THE CULMINATION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN RUSSIA: ALEKSANDR RADISHCHEV

Radishchev’s Life

Radishchev’s Social Philosophy

Radishchev’s Views on Ethics and Education

Radical Reform or Revolution?

The Treatise on Immortality

3 – GENTRY CONSERVATIVES AND GENTRY REVOLUTIONARIES

Nikolai Karamzin

The Decembrists

4 – ANTI-ENLIGHTENMENT TRENDS IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

Mysticism

The Wisdom-lovers and Russian Schellingianism

5 – PETR CHAADAEV

Chaadaev’s Metaphysics and Philosophy of History

Russia’s Past and Future

Chaadaev’s Place in Russian Intellectual History

6 – THE SLAVOPHILES

The Slavophiles’ Philosophy of History and Social Ideals

The Concept of the “Integral Personality” and “New Principles in Philosophy”

Slavophile Ecclesiology

Slavophilism as Conservative Utopianism

The Disintegration of Slavophilism

7 – THE RUSSIAN HEGELIANS — FROM “RECONCILIATION WITH REALITY” TO “PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION”

Nikolai Stankevich

Mikhail Bakunin

Vissarion Belinsky

Aleksandr Herzen

8 – BELINSKY AND DIFFERENT VARIANTS OF WESTERNISM

Belinsky’s Westernism

The Liberal Westernizers

9 – THE PETRASHEVTSY

The Social and Political Ideas of the Petrashevtsy

The Philosophical Ideas of the Petrashevtsy

10 – THE ORIGINS OF “RUSSIAN SOCIALISM”

The Evolution of Herzen’s Views

Nikolai Ogarev

11 – NIKOLAI CHERNYSHEVSKY AND THE “ENLIGHTENERS” OF THE SIXTIES

Chemyshevsky’s Anthropological Materialism

Nikolai Dobroliubov and the Dispute over the “Superfluous Men”

Dmitry Pisarev and “Nihilism”

Critics of the “Enlighteners”: Apollon Grigoriev and Nikolai Strakhov

12 – POPULIST IDEOLOGIES

Introduction

From “Go to the People” to the “People’s Will”

Petr Lavrov

Petr Tkachev

Nikolai Mikhailovsky

13 – ANARCHISM

Mikhail Bakunin

Petr Kropotkin

14 – IDEOLOGIES OF REACTION AFTER THE REFORMS

Nikolai Danilevsky

Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Konstantin Leontiev

15 – TWO PROPHETIC WRITERS

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lev Tolstoy

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy: A Comparison

16 – VARIANTS OF POSITIVISM

Introduction

Dogmatic Positivism: Grigory Wyrouboff

Critical Positivism: Vladimir Lesevich

Positivism and Psychology

Positivism and Sociology

17 – VLADIMIR SOLOVIEV AND METAPHYSICAL IDEALISM

Soloviev’s Religious Philosophy

Aleksei Kozlov and Pan-psychism

Boris Chicherin and the Hegelians of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

18 – FROM POPULISM TO MARXISM

Introduction

Between Populism and Marxism

Plekhanov and the “Rational Reality”

Plekhanov’s Literary Criticism and Aesthetics

Legal Populism

Legal Marxism

Lenin’s Early Writings