TY - JOUR

T1 - Gogol, Dostoevsky and social Christianity

AU - Kibalnik, Sergei A.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Dostoevsky's "Russian socialism" is apparently related to French "social Christianity" and to its most famous representative F.-R. de Lamennais. At the same time Dostoevsky's sociophilosophical convictions of 1860s - 1880s remind very much Gogol's last works. A whole series of parallels between the two Russian classics are made in the article, and it is pointed out that while Dostoevsky's views are usually treated with sympathy Gogol's ideas, very similar to them, are often sharply criticized. The similarity between two writers is due to their orientation to the same currents in Western socio-philosophical thought, and first of all to the "social Christianity". Both writers shared its most essential principle: they strived for transformation of social relations on Christian basis, according to the ideal of Christian brotherhood between representatives of all classes. In spite of some researchers' opinion, this is exactly Gogol, along with Chaadaev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, who was inspired by Lamennais most of all, and not only by his "Paroles d'un Croyant" but by his other works as well. Taking this into account a well-known correspondence between Belinsky and Gogol could be qualified as polemics between representatives of socialist thought and "social Christianity".

AB - Dostoevsky's "Russian socialism" is apparently related to French "social Christianity" and to its most famous representative F.-R. de Lamennais. At the same time Dostoevsky's sociophilosophical convictions of 1860s - 1880s remind very much Gogol's last works. A whole series of parallels between the two Russian classics are made in the article, and it is pointed out that while Dostoevsky's views are usually treated with sympathy Gogol's ideas, very similar to them, are often sharply criticized. The similarity between two writers is due to their orientation to the same currents in Western socio-philosophical thought, and first of all to the "social Christianity". Both writers shared its most essential principle: they strived for transformation of social relations on Christian basis, according to the ideal of Christian brotherhood between representatives of all classes. In spite of some researchers' opinion, this is exactly Gogol, along with Chaadaev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, who was inspired by Lamennais most of all, and not only by his "Paroles d'un Croyant" but by his other works as well. Taking this into account a well-known correspondence between Belinsky and Gogol could be qualified as polemics between representatives of socialist thought and "social Christianity".

KW - Brotherhood

KW - Ideal

KW - Polemics

KW - Social Christianity

KW - Social thought

KW - Utopianism

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M3 - статья

AN - SCOPUS:85031315111

SP - 150

EP - 158

JO - ВОПРОСЫ ФИЛОСОФИИ

JF - ВОПРОСЫ ФИЛОСОФИИ

SN - 0042-8744

IS - 4

ER -