Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (1)

Authors

Svetlov, Roman V.; Budarina, Anna O.

Contact information

Svetlov, Roman V.: The Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Kaliningrad, Russian Federation; Budarina, Anna O.: The Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Kaliningrad, Russian Federation;

Keywords

K. D. Kavelin; historiosophy; formational and civilizational approaches to history; Slavophilism; Westernism

Abstract

The article aims at analyzing the specifics of the historiosophical concept of the outstanding Russian scientist K. D. Kavelin. One of the problems usually diagnosed when considering the doctrine of this thinker about the history of Russia is the impossibility of unequivocally attributing it to any of the conceptual and ideological (Westernism and Slavophilism) or philosophical and methodological (Hegelianism and Positivism) trends that existed in the scientific and social Russian environment of that time. Problematizing this research topic to a greater extent, we reveal that Kavelin’s perceptions also cannot be ‘placed’ neither in opposition to the formational and civilizational approaches, nor do they fit into various ‘palliative’ attempts to integrate these extremes. Kavelin clearly realized the impossibility of studying history in the same methodological mode in which natural processes are studied on the one hand, as well as the inapplicability of universal metaphysical principles in describing the historical movement on the other hand. It seems to us that in the study of the history of Russia, which Kavelin carried out in comparison with the history of Europe, he was close to the doctrine that is called ‘non-linear historical dynamics’ nowadays

Pages

117–125

EDN

GIXIUD

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/149743

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