Catalog of Russian Thought

Translator's Foreword

Chapter I

Definition of the Russian National Form. East and West. Moscow I. The Third Rome. the Schismatic Movements of Russian Religion in the Seventeenth Century The Reforms of Peter the Great The Birth of the Russian Intellectual.

Chapter II

The central significance of the philosophical problems of history. East and West. Russia and Europe. Chatayev. Slavism and Western Europeanism. The duality of Russian consciousness. Russian universalism. The State and the People. Russian philosophy of history. Khomiakov

V, IB. Kireyevsky, K. Aksakov, Herzen, H. Danilevsky Bд Solovyov Populism, Nationalism, and Messianic Sayings.

Chapter III

The problem of the conflict between the individual and the harmony of the world. The significance of Hegel in the history of Russian thought. The attitude to Reality. Belinsky's revolt. Dostoevsky's vision. Herzen's individualistic socialism. Dostoevsky's theory of divine justice. The Birth of Great Russian Literature Gogol's Positive Drama Chutchev's Metaphysical Themes.

Chapter IV

Humanitarian Problems. There is no Renaissance humanitarianism in Russia. Humanity in Russian Literature Compassion The Crisis of Humanitarianism Dostoevsky's Dialectic of Humanism. Solovyov's Christian Humanism Atheistic Humanism to Anti-Humanism.

Chapter V

Social Color of Russian Thought. The Russian nation's sense of mission to realize social justice and human friendship and fellowship. Russia avoided the capitalist stage of development. Socialism and even atheism in Russia were of a religious character. Three periods of socialist thought. The initial influence of St. Simon and Fourier. The Russian Populists and the belief in a special Russian way. The socialism of Belinsky. The individualistic socialism of Herzen. Exposure of the mercenary habits of the West. Chernyshevsky and his What to Do? Populism and its spread among the people in the 70's. H. Mikhailovsky and the Struggle for Individuality. Nechayev and the Handbook for Revolutionaries. Lenin's precursor - Tkachev. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky's search for social justice. Solovyov's Social Subjects Russia's Utopia and the "Millennial Kingdom" The Preparation of Marxism.

Chapter VI

The Problem of Justifying Culture. The distinction between culture and civilization The opposition between perfect culture and perfect life. Civilization. Russian Nihilism The ascetic, doomsday and moralizing elements of Nihilism. Cult of natural science. Denial of relative significance. Pisarev. Contradiction between the principle of individuality and materialism. Liberation and repression of individuality. Lavrov. Payment of Debts to the People. Tolstoy. The Lies of Civilization and the Truth of God's Nature Tolstoy and Rousseau. Do Not Resist Evil Meaning of Doomsday Culture.

Chapter VII

The Question of Regime and State. Russian Attitude to Regime. Leaving the State to Become a Free Fugitive. The intellectual search for freedom and truth. Intellectuals' struggle with the empire and belief in the ideal of the absence of the state K. Aksakov's Anarchist Argument for the Slavic anarchist component of the monarchical dictatorships and autocracies. Bakunin. The desire to destroy is the desire to create. God and the State. Slavic Messianism. Kropotkin. Tolstoy's Religious Anarchism. The Doctrine of Do Not Resist Evil. Duality of Russian Consciousness. Dostoevsky's Anarchist Factor Russian Thought Including the Anarchist Ideal.

CHAPTER VIII

Determinative significance of the religious question. Russian philosophy bears a religious character. Religiousness of the various non-religious tendencies. Totalitarian nature of Russian thought. The power of recognizing religion in general and not only in rational terms. The problem of divine orthodoxy. Criticism of the theory of Western solipsism. philosophical thought of I. Kireyevsky and Khomiakov. Critique of Hegel. Voluntarism. Love as a means of cognition. Critique of abstract principles by Solovyov. Theosophy, theocracy and witchcraft. Being and what exists. The Idea of the God-Man. Doctrine on Sophia. Dostoevsky's problem of freedom. Dostoevsky as a metaphysician. Tolstoy's philosophy of religion. Archbishop Innokenty. Bukhalev. Nesmerov's anthropology of religion. German idealism and Russian religious thought. Philosophical Spiritualism in Russia. Mainstreams of Russian religious philosophy: official scriptural theology, ascetic tradition of monks, "charity"; Russian theology based on freedom and ****same-sexuality; Christian Platonism, Schelling's doctrines, Sophism (cosmic problems); humanism and apocalypticism (problems of the human being, history, culture, and society) Man and the Cosmos New Issues Looking forward to a new age of the Christian Holy Spirit.

Chapter IX

The eschatological nature of Russian thought and the nature of spiritual worship. The Russian nation is the ultimate nation. Apocalypse among the common and cultural classes. The duality of the Russian Messianic doctrine, its distortion by imperialism. Denial of the bourgeois virtues of the Russian nation. The plebeian seekers of the kingdom of heaven. Distorted apocalypticism among the revolutionary intelligentsia. Russians look to the Holy Spirit for revelation. Dostoevsky's eschatology and messianism Bл. Solovyov's disagreement with K. Leontiev H. Fyodorov's genius ideas on the relativity of Revelation's prophecies.Bл. Solovyov on the problem of life and death B. Rozanov and H. Fyodorov Three schools of thought in the Orthodox Church.

Chapter X

Summary of Russian thought in the nineteenth century. The revival of culture at the beginning of the century. Changes in intellectual consciousness. Changes in aesthetic consciousness. Interest in philosophy. Critical Marxism and idealism. Break with traditional materialism and positivism. Turning to the values of spiritual culture. The emergence of religious ideas in literature and culture.D. Merezhkovsky. Flourishing of Russian symbolism and poetry. B. Ivanov, A. Bere, A. Blok. Interest in mysticism and psychics. The Religious-Philosophical Conference in Petersburg. Problems of the Christian attitude towards carnal, cultural and social life.B.Rozanov's significance. The age of expectation of the Holy Spirit. Conversion of some Marxists to Christianity. Prosperity of Russian philosophy and creation of a unique religious philosophy The problem of Sophiology. The problem of man and creation. The problem of eschatology. The "problem of life". The common man's search for God's truth. The split between the social forces of the highest culture and the revolutionary social movements. The Meaning of Fighting Atheism As a Distortion of Russian Messianic Ideas ****ist Russian Ideas.