Abstract

NIETO, Richard Kalil. THE PATHS OF THE "RUSSIAN SOUL": NOTES FROM ITS PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY, 1700-1861. hist.crit. [online]. 2009, n.37, pp.192-216. ISSN 0121-1617.

This article is a project in hybridity that joins Russian philosophical history with a project on Russian national identity between 1700 and 1861. Based on the works of various Russian philosophical historians, and emphasizing, as the background, the preoccupation for developing a national identity within Russia's arts, this text makes a novel suggestion: that Russian philosophical history should not only be read as an agglomeration of philosophical systems, but also as a science that contributes to the multishaped imaginary that is national identity. Like the biological fusion between two cells of different species to form a new one of mixed characteristics, the essay presents a interlaced hybrid that: (1) offers refections on the characteristics of the mother (Russian philosophical history); and (2) synthesizes refections on the features of the father (the project of national identity).

Keywords : Russia; Russian Soul; History of Russian Philosophy; Russian National Identity.

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