Russian Religious Philosophy: The Nature of the Phenomenon, Its Path, and Its Afterlife

The tasks of this text are not historical, at least in the sense of describing historical facts or sources. Today in the factual history of Russian philosophy, there are no greater lacunae or enigmas. Thus the principal goal of this chapter is conceptual: it is to comprehend the phenomenon of Russian religious philosophy both in its diachrony and in synchrony. These two aspects will be considered not nacheinander, but nebeneinander that is not in succession, but in parallel to each other. I will trace the course of philosophical events trying not so much to describe factual details as to expose logics and structures of this course, concepts and ideas involved in it.