A history of Russian thought from the enlightenment to marxism

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. �Physical description: xvii, 456 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Translation of ""Rosyjska filozofia i my l spo eczna od o wiecenia do marksizmu"".Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:Trends in enlightenment thought. Catherine II and Enlightenment philosophy. The emergence of Russian Enlightenment philosophy. Nikolai Novikov and freemasonry. The aristocratic opposition -- 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? -- Gentry conservatives and gentry revolutionaries. Nikolai Karamzin. The Decemberists -- Anti-enlightenment trends in the early nineteenth century. Mysticism. The Wisdom-lovers and Russian Schellingianism -- Petr Chaadaev. Chaadaev's metaphysics and philosophy of history. Russia's past and future. Chaadaev's place in Russian intellectual history -- The Slavophiles. The Slavophiles' philosophy of history and social ideals. The concept of the ""integral personality"" and ""newprinciples in philosophy"". Slavophile ecclesiology. Slavophilism as coservative utopianism. The disintegration of Slavophilism -- The Russian Hegelians : from ""reconciliation with reality"" to ""philosophy of action"". Nikolai Stankevish. Mikhail Bakunin. Vissarion Belinsky. Aleksandr Herzen -- Belinsky and different variants of westernism. Belinsky's westernism. The westernizers -- The Petrashevtsky. The social and political ideas of the Petrashevtsky. Philosophical ideas of the Petrashevtsky -- The origins of ""Russian socialism"", The evolution of Herzen's views. Nikolai Ogarev -- Nikolai Chernyshevsky and the ""enlighteners"" of the sixties. Chernyshevsky's anthropological materialism. Nikolai Dobroliubov and the dispute over the ""superflous men"". Dmitry Pisarev and ""nihilism"". Critics of the ""enlighteners"": Apollon Grigoriev and Nikolai Strakhov -- Populist ideologies. Introduction. From ""Go to the People"" to the ""people's Will"". Petr Lavrov. Petr Tkachev. Nikolai Mikhailovsky -- Anarchism. Mikhail Bakunin. Petr Kropotkin -- Ideologies of reaction after the reforms. Nikolai Danilevsky. Konstantin Pobedonostsev. Konstantin Leontiev -- Two prophetic writers. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Lev Tolstoy. Dostoevsky and Tolstoy: a comparison -- Variants of Positivism. Introduction. Dogmatic Positivism: Grigory Wyrouboff. Critical Positivism: Vladimir Lesevich. Positivism and psychology. positivism and sociology -- Vladimir Soloviev and metaphysical idealism. Soloviev's religious philosophy. Aleksei Kozlov and pan-psychism. Boris Chicherin and Hegelians of the second half of the nineteenth century -- 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. Subjects: Intellectuals Soviet Union History; Socialism Soviet Union History; Philosophy, Russian; Socialism; Russia Intellectual life.