TY - JOUR
T1 - Soviet Studies in Renaissance Philosophy as a Basis for Developing a New View on History (1960-1980s)
AU - Evlampiev, Igor
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The aim of this article is to show that in the 1960-80s, Soviet researches on Renaissance philosophy elaborated a view on the history of European civilization, according to which the main tendency in European history (since the Renaissance up to now) consists in an ever more complete revealing of man as an absolute and infinite being which realizes its absoluteness by creating culture. The author shows that, although sharing this general perspective on the Renaissance, the different Soviet thinkers evaluate its historical role in disparate ways: Aleksej Losev holds that the Renaissance has produced an individualistic ideology, which has led the European culture to its present-day crisis; on the contrary, Leonid Batkin and Vladimir Bibixin claim that it is precisely because the aims proposed by the Renaissance have not been realized, that we are facing the modern spiritual crisis.
AB - The aim of this article is to show that in the 1960-80s, Soviet researches on Renaissance philosophy elaborated a view on the history of European civilization, according to which the main tendency in European history (since the Renaissance up to now) consists in an ever more complete revealing of man as an absolute and infinite being which realizes its absoluteness by creating culture. The author shows that, although sharing this general perspective on the Renaissance, the different Soviet thinkers evaluate its historical role in disparate ways: Aleksej Losev holds that the Renaissance has produced an individualistic ideology, which has led the European culture to its present-day crisis; on the contrary, Leonid Batkin and Vladimir Bibixin claim that it is precisely because the aims proposed by the Renaissance have not been realized, that we are facing the modern spiritual crisis.
KW - Aleksej Losev
KW - Leonid Batkin
KW - Renaissance philosophy
KW - Vladimir Bibixin
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050734881&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3280/SF2018-002009
DO - 10.3280/SF2018-002009
M3 - Обзорная статья
AN - SCOPUS:85050734881
VL - 73
SP - 327
EP - 339
JO - Rivista di Storia della Filosofia
JF - Rivista di Storia della Filosofia
SN - 0393-2516
IS - 2
ER -