Ivan Kireyevsky

Ivan Vasilyevich Kirejewski (Russian: Иван Васильевич Киреевский; * 22 Märzjul / April 3 1806greg in Moscow, .. .. † 11 Junijul / June 23 1856greg in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian writer, publicist and with Alexei Khomyakov the most important theorists of the Slavophiles.

Life

Kirejewski grew up in an embossed by the romanticism and emotionalism parents house, where he came into contact with the writings of Locke and Helvetius. Like the majority of the Slavophiles, he was of noble landowners. As a young adult, he was also in conjunction with German intellectuals and had, among others, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Schelling and Oken in contact.

Kirejewski also announced in 1832 the Journal of the Europeans out and edited in 1845 shortly Moscow.

Mind

Kirejewskis central concern was on the one hand Russia's relationship with Europe; the other hand, he was concerned with overcoming the difference between knowledge and belief. For him, Europe was dominated by the rationalist way of thinking, which did not allow for a holistic approach. The urrussische tradition, however, was based on precisely this wholeness, but abhandenkam by the approach of Russia to Western traditions of thought (eg by the Schism, ie the elimination of the Russian Old Believers of the Orthodox Church, or, for example by modernizing attempts of Peter the Great ). Kirejewski aimed at the reconciliation visiting this old and the new tradition of Russia.

Works

• Literature by and about Ivan Vasilyevich Kirejewski in the catalog that German national library