Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: This paper sketches the ambitious outlines of an assessment of the place of Russian philosophy in philosophical history "at large", i.e. on a global and world-historical scale. At the same time, it indicates, rather modestly, a number of elements and aspects of such a project. A retrospective reflection and reconstruction is not only a recurrent phenomenon in philosophical culture (which, the author assumes, has become global), it also is, by virtue of its being a philosophical reflection, one among many possible perspectives. The central claim of the paper is that the key to an assessment of the world-historical place of Russian philosophy is to be found in the Soviet period, not only because it was, through its isolation policy and its subordination of philosophy to political and ideological goals, a determining factor for a large part of the 20th C., but also, and more importantly, because it has systematically distorted the perception of Russia's philosophical history, including of the Soviet episode itself. The very undoing of these distortions, however, risks to become a distortion because of, on the one hand, a demonization of the Soviet factor and, on the other hand, a disregard its philosophical and meta-philosophical relevance.
Source: Diogène
DOI: 10.3917/dio.224.0074
Author: Micheline Galley
Language: French
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2089099447