Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2012 5 (4)

Authors

Mitic, Andrej

Contact information

Mitic, Andrej : University of Nis, Faculty of Law , 2 University Square, Nis, 18000 Serbia , e-mail:

Keywords

tradition; conservatism; Russian conservatism; state; samoderzhavie

Abstract

Both in situational-functional and in the sense of its content, learning of N.M. Karamzin offers a conservative programme which represents format in which the civilizational and identity crisis in Russia at the beginning of the XIX century was answered by the system of arguments. This allows us to understand his intellectual effort as the moment in Russian intellectual history when unreflected traditionalism of Russian thought transforms itself into a rationalized hipostasis of reflected ideological conservatism, which became (in its various variants) spiritual official mainstream of Russian prerevolutionary thought. Key elements of the philosophical funding of his conservative worldview, its ontological, epistemological, axiological and methodological qualities- reproduce theirselfs at the law and political level of his conservative learning. Without intent to present N.M. Karamzins complex worldview evolution (in which he passed through the enthusiastic enlightment cosmopolitan phasis in his youth, to become a founding father of Russian conservatism in his middle ages), we will try to situate his work in the complex map of Russian intellectual tradition, present key values of his conservative system, and try to mark the importance of the idea of the state in it.

Pages

550-555

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/2839

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