Europe in Russian conservative journalism of the 19th century: Karamzin – Dostoevsky – Danilevsky

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Russian conservative movement, 19th century, journalism, Russian and Europe, Russian Europeans

Abstract

Images of Europe constructed by Nikolay Karamzin, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolay Danilevsky are the focus of this paper. Their views express not so much the desire for Russia’s isolation from Europe, but the opposition to the process of Europeanization that actually took place. Both Karamzin and Dostoevsky refuse to see Europe as a ‘battery’ charged with progressive norms and forms. In the writers’ view, Europeanization is inextricably linked with the Enlightenment, which lies in humanism and the development of human potential, and not in tracing the achievements of scientific progress and technology. The writers do not criticize Europe as such, but the reduction of the Enlightenment to the external European facade of formal norms and technologies. The 19th century Russian conservatism actively deals with the concept of Europe and is involved in the search of positive aspects of Russian-European interaction.

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2019-12-28

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Prokhorov, G. (2019). Europe in Russian conservative journalism of the 19th century: Karamzin – Dostoevsky – Danilevsky. Studia Rossica Gedanensia, (6), 135–142. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/SRG/article/view/3877

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