Andrzej Walicki and His"A History of Russian Thought"
Polish historian Walicki's"A History of Russian Thought"examines the development of Russian thought from the 1760s to the 1890s and reviews more than a hundred Russian thinkers,including Radishev,Chataev,Belinsky,Petrashevsky,Herzen,Chernyshevsky,Dostoevsky,Tolstoy,and Vladimir Solovyov,giving a panoramic view of the history of Russian thought from the late 18th Century to the late 19th Century.As a Polish scholar,Walicki combined the relevant achievements of the Russian and Soviet academic circles,as well as the Slavic academic circles in Europe and America,and presented a trinity of Russian intellectual history.His discovery and analysis of many paradoxical phenomena in Russian thought and its historical development constitute the highlight of this book,and he also has a subtle grasp of the mutual infiltration between the history of Russian thought and the history of Russian literature.In Walicki's description,the contradictions and confrontations between ancient Russia and modern Russia,Russia and Europe,and the upper and lower classes of Russian society constitute three major"issues of the curse".Russian thought is like a huge pendulum swinging back and forth between two extremes.This book has had a great influence in the international Slavic academic community and has been used as a textbook for Russian history by many universities in the UK and the US.It not only helps us understand the history of Russian thought,but also helps us understand the interpretation of Russian thought history in the Slavic academic community abroad.
Andrzej WalickiHistory of Russian ThoughtHistorical PhilosophySocial PhilosophyParadoxes in Intellectual History