Russian Philosophy V3: Pre-Revolutionary Philosophy Theology

By James M. Edie and Jane Wong

Twentieth-century Russian philosophy opens with the resurgence of religious currents of thought that, since the time of the early Slavophiles, had been isolated in the theological academies. Such thinkers as Fyodorov and Solovyov made religious philosophy once again academically and cultur­ally acceptable in Russia, and their efforts were continued by the Russian philosophers in exile, among whom Berdyaev, Shestov, Frank, and Lossky are the most eminent. Since the Revolution of 1917, philosophy inside Russia has been gradually replaced by political action and the more-or-less "scholastic" efforts to justify such action through vari­ous levels of Marxist revisionism. Official Soviet philosophy today is wholly identified with the fortunes of an ever-changing reinterpretation of dialecti­cal materialism; Russian philosophy in the traditional sense is now almost ex­clusively identified with the philosophers in exile and their disciples.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870497162
• ISBN13: 9780870497162
• Release Date: December 1976
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.2" x 8.2"