Субъектизм и индивидуализм в общественной философии

by Nikolai Berdyaev, Николай Бердяев

This reprint of a work by the outstanding Russian philosopher N. Berdiaev that was published in 1901 and has not been printed since then was his first book. It is written from the platform of so called legal Marxism and deals with the "subjective methodology" in sociology developed by the Russian scholar N. Mikhailovskii. For Berdiaev this work was a landmark in his movement from Marxism to idealism. One of the topics studied in the book is the fate of Russian capitalism which is as applicable now as it was one hundred years ago. Introduction is by P. Struve (pp.5-78). Supplements Literature and Life by N. Mikhailovskii, Something About "the Criteria of Truth" by F. Bersenev, Subjective Methodology... by V. Chernov. Commentary and name index.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1901

About the author

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born at Kyiv in 1874 of an aristocratic family. He commenced his education in a military school and subsequently entered the University of Kiev. There he accepted Marxism and took part in political agitation, for which he was expelled. At twenty-five he was exiled from Kiev to the north of Russia and narrowly escaped a second period of exile shortly before the Revolution. Before this, however, he had broken with Marxism in company with Sergius Bulgakov, and in 1909 he contributed to a symposium which reaffirmed the values of Orthodox Christianity. After the October Revolution he was appointed by the Bolshevists to a chair of philosophy in the University of Moscow, but soon fell into disfavour for his independent political opinions. He was twice imprisoned and in 1922 was expelled from the country. He settled first in Berlin, where he opened a Russian Academy of Philosophy and Religion. Thence he moved to Clamart near Paris, where he lectured in a similar institution. In 1939 he was invited to lecture at the Sorbonne. He lived through the German occupation unmolested. After the liberation, he announced his adhesion to the Soviet government, but later an article by him published in a Paris (Russian) newspaper, criticising the return to a policy of repression, was tantamount to a withdrawal of this. He died at Clamart March 24, 1948.