Russian philosophy

[Michael Pugliese]

http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0003/1300.html
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Cont/ContEpst.htm
ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the most recent period in the 
development of Russian thought (1960s-1990s). Proceeding from the 
cyclical patterns of Russian intellectual history, I propose to name 
it 'the third philosophical awakening.' I define the main tendency of 
this period as 'the struggle of thought against ideocracy.' I then 
suggest a classification of main trends in Russian thought of this 
period: (1) Dialectical materialism in its evolution from late 
Stalinism to neo-communist mysticism; (2) Neorationalism and 
Structuralism; (3) Neo-Slavophilism, or the Philosophy of National 
Spirit; (4) Personalism and Liberalism; (5) Religious Philosophy and 
Mysticism, both Christian Orthodox and Non-Traditional; (6) 
Culturology or the Philosophy of Culture; (7) Conceptualism or the 
Philosophy of Postmodernity.
"The Karamazovs are not scoundrels but philosophers, because all real 
Russian people are philosophers..."

Dmitry Karamazov, in Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov

It is a property of the Russian people to indulge in philosophy. 
...The fate of the philosopher in Russia is painful and tragic.

Nikolai Berdyaev. The Russian Idea

The fact that one can annihilate a philosophy . ... or that one can 
prove that a philosophy annihilates itself is of little consequence. 
If it's really philosophy, then, like the phoenix, it will always rise 
again from its own ashes.

Friedrich Schlegel. Athenaeum Fragments, trans. Peter Firchow, 103.
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   Also see A. Walicki book, "A History of Russian Thought, " and 
Leszek Kolakowski, "Main Currents of Marxism."
Michael Pugliese