The RussianAufklärer

Tolstoi in Search of Truth, Freedom, and Immortality

Bibliographic Data

ID4207409
AuthorsLina Steiner (0000-0002-4419-8587, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume70
Issue4
Pages773-794
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5612/slavicreview.70.4.0773
OpenAlexW2502669761
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Lev Tolstoi, in his dunking about life, death, freedom, and immortality, drew significandy on the German philosophical tradition from Leibniz and Moses Mendelssohn to Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Friedrich Schleiermacher, as Lina Steiner argues in this article. Herder, who tried to salvage rationalism by getting away from the mechanistic metaphysics of the French Enlightenment and reintroducing the teleological explanation of nature, was a particularly important influence on Tolstoi. Herder's view of life, including both individual life and the life of community, as organic Bildung underlay the artistic conception ofWar and Peace, Tolstoi's first major fictional narrative. Tolstoi continued to develop this organicist paradigm in his later sociopolitical, religious, and aesthietic writings

Art · Art history · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Immortality · Literature · Metaphysics · Narrative · Teleology · Theology · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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