Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (11)

Authors

Shchipkov, Vasiliy A.

Contact information

Shchipkov, Vasiliy A.: Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) Moscow, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0002-2263-283X

Keywords

Vekhi (Landmarks); secular; religion; Russian religious philosophy; intelligentsia

Abstract

The article analyzes the meaning of the category of the secular in the religious and philosophical collections of essays of the beginning of the twentieth century (“The Problems of Idealism”, “Vekhi (Landmarks)”, “From the Depths”). The authors of these collections – S. Bulgakov, P. Struve, N. Berdiaev, S. Frank, S. Trubetskoi, etc., and later their younger associate A. Losev – opposed positivism and nihilistic-revolutionary tendencies in the culture and strove to rethink the history of the development of the secular society, presenting secularism as a special religious phenomenon. Since the members of the Vekhi group almost never used the term ‘secular’, the subject of the study is revealed through reconstruction their attitudes toward the culture, the Church, and the intelligentsia. The article concludes that the authors of the Vekhi collections of essays immersed the secular philosophy completely in the religious, Christian discourse, and considered the secular as a specifically religious phenomenon

Pages

2035–2044

EDN

NBCQPA

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/151830

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