Herzen and the Existential World View
A New Approach to an Old Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4215430 |
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| Authors | William Cannon Weidemaier (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 557-569 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2496263 |
| OpenAlex | W2330960762 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Nineteenth-century Russian writers often displayed an existential quality that is significant not only because it was apparently indigenous but because it was one of the first features of Russian thought to influence the West. There is no accepted label for this trait-Geoffrey Clive uses the term "intuitive existentialism," while Marc Raeff speaks simply of a "more or less existentialist" philosophic temperament -but, by any name, its influence on the development of existential thought in the West is undeniable. Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus each acknowledged the importance of Dostoevskii in relation to their own thought, while many religious existentialists, and even the atheistic Heidegger, have found their concerns partly anticipated in a work such as Tolstoi's Death of Ivan Ilich. Similarly, if less frequently, Vladimir Solov'ev, Konstantin Leont'ev, Lev Shestov, V. V. Rozanov, and especially Nikolai Berdiaev have attracted the attention of specialists on existentialism
Art · Epistemology · Existentialism · Indigenous · Literature · Personality · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Temperament · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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