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Soviet Studies in Renaissance Philosophy as a Basis for Developing a New View on History (1960-1980s)
327-339 p.
- The aim of this article is to show that in the 1960-80s, Soviet researches on Renaissance philosophy elaborated a view on the history of European civilization, according to which the main tendency in European history (since the Renaissance up to now) consists in an ever more complete revealing of man as an absolute and infinite being which realizes its absoluteness by creating culture. The author shows that, although sharing this general perspective on the Renaissance, the different Soviet thinkers evaluate its historical role in disparate ways: Aleksej Losev holds that the Renaissance has produced an individualistic ideology, which has led the European culture to its present-day crisis; on the contrary, Leonid Batkin and Vladimir Bibixin claim that it is precisely because the aims proposed by the Renaissance have not been realized, that we are facing the modern spiritual crisis. [Publishers' text].
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- Aleksej Losev, Leonid Batkin, Vladimir Bibixin, Renaissance philosophy
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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
