Ebook: A History of Russian Philosophy 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity

Introduction : The humanist tradition in Russian philosophy / G.M. Hamburg and Randall A. Poole -- I. The nineteenth century. Slavophiles, Westernizers, and the birth of Russian philosophical humanism / Sergey Horujy ; translated by Patrick Lally Michelson -- Alexander Herzen / Derek Offord -- Materialism and the radical intelligentsia : the 1860s / Victoria S. Frede -- Russian ethical humanism : from populism to neo-idealism / Thomas Nemeth -- II. Russian metaphysical idealism in defense of human dignity. Boris Chicherin and human dignity in history / G.M. Hamburg -- 6. Vladimir Solovʹëv's philosophical anthropology : autonomy, dignity, perfectibility / Randall A. Poole -- Russian panpsychism : Kozlov, Lopatin, Losskii / James P. Scanlan -- III. Humanity and divinity in Russian religious philosophy after Solovʹëv. A Russian cosmodicy : Sergei Bulgakov's religious philosophy / Paul Valliere -- Pavel Florenskii's trinitarian humanism / Steven Cassedy -- Semën Frank's expressivist humanism / Philip J. Swoboda -- IV. Freedom and human perfectibility in the Silver Age. Religious humanism in the Russian Silver Age / Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal -- Russian liberalism and the philosophy of law / Frances Nethercott -- Imagination and ideology in the new religious consciousness / Robert Bird -- Eschatology and hope in Silver Age thought / Judith Deutsch Kornblatt -- V. Russian philosophy in revolution and exile. Russian Marxism / Andrzej Walicki -- Adventures in dialectic and intuition : Shpet, Ilʹin, Losev / Philip T. Grier -- Nikolai Berdiaev and the philosophical tasks of the emigration / Stuart Finkel -- Eurasianism : affirming the person in an "era of faith" / Martin Beisswenger -- Afterword : On persons as open-ended ends-in-themselves (the view from two novelists and two critics) / Caryl Emerson.;The great age of Russian philosophy spans the century between 1830 and 1930 - from the famous Slavophile-Westernizer controversy of the 1830s and 1840s, through the 'Silver Age' of Russian culture at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the formation of a Russian 'philosophical emigration' in the wake of the Russian Revolution. This volume is a major history and interpretation of Russian philosophy in this period. Eighteen chapters (plus a substantial introduction and afterword) discuss Russian philosophy's main figures, schools and controversies, while simultaneously pursuing a common central theme: the development of a distinctive Russian tradition of philosophical humanism focused on the defence of human dignity. As this volume shows, the century-long debate over the meaning and grounds of human dignity, freedom and the just society involved thinkers of all backgrounds and positions, transcending easy classification as 'religious' or 'secular'. The debate still resonates strongly today.