The Way, The Journal of the Russian Emigration (1925–1940)

2020 ◽  
pp. 433-449
Author(s):  
Antoine Arjakovsky
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Spiritual Renewal ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Russian Intellectual History ◽  
High Level ◽  
Russian Religious Thought ◽  
The Way

The Way: A Journal of Russian Religious Thought, a journal in the Russian language, was published quarterly in Paris from 1925 to 1940 by the Academy of Religious Philosophy, directed by Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev. Scholars ranging from the French Slavist Pierre Pascal, who described the sixty-one issues of The Way as ‘uncommonly substantial’, to the American-based historian of the Russian emigration, Marc Raeff, who stressed its ‘high level of erudition’, have agreed that the journal is one of the most brilliant in all Russian intellectual history. The Way was intended to be the direct heir of the Put’ publishing house, founded in Moscow in 1909 by Berdyaev and other writers. Thus, The Way set itself the task of carrying the intellectual and spiritual renewal of the Silver Age forward. We can distinguish three main periods in the evolution of The Way: a modernist period (1925–1930), a non-conformist period (1930–1935), and, finally, a spiritual period (1935–1940). This evolution corresponds to that of an entire intellectual generation that was compelled by historical circumstances to think through the encounter between Western and Eastern intellectual and spiritual traditions and to seek a synthesis (thus ‘modernist’) between East and West. For all their internal differences, this intellectual generation evolved in a non-conformist direction, taking an equally critical stance towards liberalism and socialism and preferring personalism to both, moving towards a spiritual rationality that was simultaneously conscious of the limits of an excessively apophatic spirituality and of an exclusively positivist rationalism.

scholarly journals The philosophical language of Russia as a factor of cultural unity

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Vladimir Shakirovich, Sabirov ◽  
Olga Sergeevn Soina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Russian Idea

The Russian language functions not only at the ordinary, literary, but also professional levels. Philosophical reflection is an important part of communication in Russian. It includes some fundamental concepts in Russian religious philosophy, embodied in specific language, mostly peculiar to this spiritual and intellectual tradition: the Russian idea, unity, Sofia, sobornost, God-mankind, Russian cosmism, cosmedicy etc. This tradition, was tragically interrupted in 1917 and dropped out of the cultural context of our country for decades, began to return Home in the 80–90-years of the twentieth century. Its ideas, meanings and values can serve as a basis for the cultural unity of our Fatherland, because they are a reflection and expression of the special features of the Russian mentality. Despite the "Russian" nature of many words and concepts used by Russian thinkers, they go beyond the domestic cultural tradition in terms of content and have a universal meaning, so that the Russian philosophy of the Silver age becomes readable and revered not only in our country but also abroad. This article deals with three main problems of Russian philosophy: the Russian idea, unity and the doctrine of Sofia. The Russian idea is not only an attempt to theoretically comprehend the fate of Russia, the specifics of Russian culture and the Russian type of man, but also an experience of philosophical reflection on the preservation, transformation and salvation of man and humanity in General. Its universal value lies in the antientropic direction of Russian thought. Unity also offers a way of human development, which does not destroy the identity of peoples, cultures and civilizations, and involves strengthening the unity of mankind on the basis of their further development. The teaching about Sophia or sophiology means overcoming the materialistic perception of the world based on cultivation of a particular spiritual aesthetic, the ability to see harmony and beauty even in the seemingly unlovable things

Main Trends of Contemporary Russian Thought

1998 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Mikhail Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Recent Period ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
National Spirit ◽  
Russian Intellectual History ◽  
Main Tendency

This paper focuses on the most recent period in the development of Russian thought (1960s-1990s). Proceeding from the cyclical patterns of Russian intellectual history, I propose to name it 'the third philosophical awakening.' I define the main tendency of this period as 'the struggle of thought against ideocracy.' I then suggest a classification of main trends in Russian thought of this period: (1) Dialectical materialism in its evolution from late Stalinism to neo-communist mysticism; (2) Neorationalism and Structuralism; (3) Neo-Slavophilism, or the Philosophy of National Spirit; (4) Personalism and Liberalism; (5) Religious Philosophy and Mysticism, both Christian Orthodox and Non-Traditional; (6) Culturology or the Philosophy of Culture; (7) Conceptualism or the Philosophy of Postmodernity.

ANGELOLOGY IN THE RUSSIAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY. SEVERAL PAGES

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Markov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Separate Area ◽  
Russian Intellectual History ◽  
Intellectual Production ◽  
Intellectual Reasoning

Reflections on the nature of angels in Russian religious philosophy are inseparable from political theology and reflection on scientific and technical achievements. Based on the works of N. Boldyrev, A. Losev and S. Averintsev, the article proves that the doctrine of angels was to spiritualize technical progress and not less to preserve humanitarian culture in the field of symbolic-mathematical speculation. Therefore, Russian angelology is dialogical and controversial: it relies on the hermeneutics of a symbol, while symbolism is considered as part of intellectual production parallel to technical invention. It is proved how exactly the reception of ideas related to the parameters of perception and a certain style of intellectual reasoning made it possible to single out questions about angels into a separate area of philosophical problematization. Accordingly, the study of how exactly the questions were thought of as autonomous, makes it possible to clarify how Russian thought could assert the autonomy of orders of philosophical reasoning

Tensions and Challenges of Intellectual History in Contemporary Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-115
Author(s):  
Roberto Breña
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
English Language ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

This article provides an overview of some prominent aspects of intellectual history as practiced today in Latin America, especially regarding conceptual history. It delves into the way this methodology arrived to the region not long ago and discusses the way some of its practitioners combine it with the history of political languages, often ignoring the profound differences between both approaches. Therefore, the text stresses some of the most significant contrasts between them. In its last part, the article is critical of the purported “globality” of global intellectual history, an issue that is inextricably linked with the pervasive use of the English language in the field. Throughout, the text poses several of the challenges that lie ahead for intellectual history in Latin America.

Elin Pelin’s “Works” (1938–1942): publication, inaccuracies, significance

Proglas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Hristov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Way

Elin Pelin’s first collected works show a side of the writer we rarely acknowledge, as it ismostly referred to as a “characteristic” of some of his books. In the five volumes of his first collected works he presents himself as an author of cycles. The present paper draws several conclusions from reading those five volumes, from various “mistakes” (made by the publishing house or/and by the press), as well as from the way we perceive his style, his writing, and his capabilities.

scholarly journals Context, reception, and the study of great thinkers in international relations

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Vergerio
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Methodological Reflection ◽  
Cambridge School ◽  
The Way

AbstractWhile the discipline of International Relations (IR) has a long tradition of celebrating ‘great thinkers’ and appropriating their ideas for contemporary theories, it has rarely accounted for how these authors came to be seen as ‘great’ in the first place. This is at least partly a corollary of the discipline’s long-standing aversion to methodological reflection in its engagement with intellectual history, and it echoes IR’s infamous tendency to misportray these great thinkers’ ideas more broadly. Drawing on existing attempts to import the methodological insights of historians of political thought into IR, this article puts forward a unified approach to the study of great thinkers in IR that combines the tenets of so-called ‘Cambridge School’ contextualism with those of what broadly falls under the label of reception theory. I make the case for the possibility of developing a coherent methodology through the combination of what is often seen as separate strands of intellectual history, and for the value of such an approach in IR. In doing so, the article ultimately offers a more rigorous methodology for engaging with the thought of great thinkers in IR, for analyzing the way a specific author’s ideas come to have an impact in practice, and for assessing the extent to which these ideas are distorted in the process.

Content and Language Integrated Learning: Panacea or Policy Borrowing Myth?

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Paran
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Student Selection ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Policy Borrowing ◽  
Educational Transfer ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper examines the spread of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) through a number of lenses. It argues that the supporters and promoters of CLIL position it as a near-panacea and attribute to it a large number of benefits, not all of which are supported by research. Looking at the issues arising from recent attempts to define CLIL, the paper proposes a distinction between weak and strong CLIL. The paper points to the lacunae in the research into CLIL, and suggests that these gaps are the result of educational policies that privilege a second language over other curricular subjects. Looking at the contexts where CLIL seems to succeed, as well as places where such teaching has been acknowledged to fail, it emerges that success is often connected to a high level of student selection on a number of criteria, as well as a high level of investment in teachers and teaching, and that CLIL often privileges those students who are already high achievers both in language and content. The paper then looks at the way in which the spread of CLIL policies can be understood through theories of policy borrowing and educational transfer.

scholarly journals The Archive for the Psychology of Religion

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Ladd
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
The Way

As the Archive for the Psychology of Religion transitions to the SAGE publishing house, this editorial outlines the current vision and principles guiding the way forward. This includes a strong emphasis on publishing work that demonstrates transparency, precision, breadth, and depth in areas of theory, research, and pedagogy. The primary article types are described and the submission practicalities are addressed.

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