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The Philosophy of the Russian Enlightenment in Soviet Historiography : Names and Problems
265-276 p.
- Neither in Imperial Russia nor in the Soviet Union was the Philosophy of the Russian Enlightenment an object of systematic research. There were very few figures in the Russian Enlightenment who received attention in this respect. Moreover, the interest in them depended not on a possibile positive evaluation of their thought but rather on their being either of non-noble origin (such as Mixail Lomonosov) or victims of persecution on the part of the authorities (such as Aleksandr RadiËÂsËÂcev). In particular, during the Soviet era, the Enlightenment was not understood as a specific epoch. In their research, Soviet historians of philosophy applied the Marxist classification of socio-economic formations and thus described that period as part of the feudal era. In the USSR, the dominating perspective was socio-economic, and this posed limits to the understanding of the logic of philosophical processes.
- This is why Enlightenment studies were more successful outside the discipline of philosophy, for example, in the sphere of history or philology. [Publishers' text].
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- Russia, Soviet Union, Enlightenment, philosophy, history
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In this issue
- Introduction : writing a universal history of philosophy : soviet philosophical historiography in a comparative perspective
- History of Philosophy in the Early Soviet Epoch
- What History of Philosophy Do We Need, or, Is Soviet Scientific Approach to the History of Philosophy Really Scientific?
- Rethinking History : The 1964 Interdisciplinary Conference On Methodological Questions of Historical Science
- The Philosophy of the Russian Enlightenment in Soviet Historiography : Names and Problems
- Provincialising Europe? : Soviet Historiography of Philosophy and the Question of Eurocentrism
- From Aristotole, Through Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd to Dialectical Materialism : Soviet Approaches Towards the History of Medieval Philosophy in the 1950s and 1960s
- Merab Mamardašvili : Kant, Descartes, and the History of Philosophy
- Soviet Studies in Renaissance Philosophy as a Basis for Developing a New View on History (1960-1980s)
- Science and Politics in the Newly Born Soviet Union : Silvano Tagliagambe's Analysis in Ludovico Geymonat's Storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico
- Soviet Theory of the History of Philosophy as Capstone of Soviet Philosophical Culture
- Index