I. V. Kireevsky: Fragments
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This article presents an annotated translation of the *Fragments* by Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevsky (1806-1856), a major figure of Russian Slavophilism, produced by Father Michel Evdokimov. The approach combines translation with philological and theological commentary. The article sets out two main axes of Kireyevsky's thought: on the one hand, a reading of Russian history grounded in the antinomy between indigenous Orthodox civilization and imported Western civilization, a reading that the introduction qualifies as partially mythical; on the other hand, the outline of an original Christian philosophy, inspired by patristics and the philocalic tradition, in which authentic knowledge proceeds not from abstract reason but from the unified integrity of all human faculties. The theological contribution lies in the illumination of a personalist anthropology and a spiritual epistemology that anticipate the developments of twentieth-century Russian religious philosophy and remain, according to the annotators, an unfinished intellectual task.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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