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Tolstoy in Context
  • Edited by Anna A. Berman
  • Published online:
    05 January 2023
    Print publication:
    22 December 2022
  • Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and Russian literary traditions. His non-fiction incensed readers and drew a massive following, making Tolstoy an important religious force as well as a stubborn polemicist in many fields. Through his involvement with Gandhi and the Indian independence movement, his aid in relocating the Doukhobors to Canada, his correspondence with American abolitionists and his polemics with scientists in the periodical press, Tolstoy engaged a vast array of national and international contexts of his time in his life and thought. This volume introduces those contexts and situates Tolstoy—the man and the writer—in the rich and tumultuous period in which his intellectual and creative output came to fruition.

  • 5 - Boris Chicherin and human dignity in history

  • Edited by G. M. Hamburg, Claremont McKenna College, California, Randall A. Poole
  • Book:
    A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    22 April 2010, pp 111-130

  • Summary

    As a public intellectual, Boris Nikolaevich Chicherin was Russia's foremost advocate of liberty of conscience. In Russia, no thinker worked more systematically in the defense of human dignity than him. Chicherin's mature political philosophy was an eclectic mixture based on his life-long exploration of ideas: a Russian variant of juste-milieu liberalism, Manchesterite political philosophy, and German metaphysical idealism. In the first book of Philosophy of Law Chicherin outlined the theoretical relationship between the individual and society. He described the individual as the "cornerstone of the social edifice. In the second book of Philosophy of Law Chicherin analyzed the problem of right; that is, of "liberty defined by statutory law". In Book Three of Philosophy of Law he presented his ethical theory. In Book Four, he sketched out a theory of social institutions.