Transformations of the Slavophile Idea in the Twentieth Century
S. S. Khoruzhii
The Slavophile idea in the broad sense, as of self-determination Russian culture, was by no means born together with historical Slavophilism. It has always been an immanent component intellectual world and development Russia merely received its name, a rather random infelicitous one, from In our century it rich history, which majority events have political polemical character. They much discussed, now we will leave them aside take up another task: to delimit examine great creative contributions idea. Under closest scrutiny, find three such contributions: Slavic Renaissance, Eurasian idea, Neopatristic Synthesis. All their outward appearance diverge quite far customary textbook image Slavophilism: [they are] "a series magical metamorphoses" that show both force well-known amorphousness. Let us try see these metamorphoses interrelated episodes trace out graphic whole. Earlier, people loved view form action, they knew how do so. Faddei Zelinskii master this, at beginning he published Petersburg studies entitled From Life Ideas [Iz zhizni idei]. Indeed, is first episode life associated.
Russian Studies in Philosophy