Differences between catholicism and ortodoxy in concepts of classical and late russian slavophiles (on the example of Ivan Kireyevsky’s and Nikolay Danilevsky’s texts) Cover Image

Różnice między katolicyzmem i prawosławiem w rozważaniach klasycznych i późnych słowianofilów rosyjskich (na przykładzie tekstów Iwana Kiriejewskiego i Nikołaja Danilewskiego).
Differences between catholicism and ortodoxy in concepts of classical and late russian slavophiles (on the example of Ivan Kireyevsky’s and Nikolay Danilevsky’s texts)

Author(s): Dorota Walczak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Slavophilia; Orthodoxy; Catholicism; Ivan Kireyevsky; Nikolay Danilevsky

Summary/Abstract: One of the three main concepts of the Russian Slavophiles was to oppose Russia and Europe, of course, in favor of the Russia. “Europe” in the Slavo-phile concepts became a carrier of negative qualities and example of “corruption of morals”, in contrast to Orthodox Russia, which draws from the herit-age of the Orthodox faith. The subject of the comparison of Europe and Russia were almost all areas of political and social life. For obvious reasons, Slavo-philes also pointed to religious differences, demonstrating the superiority of “Orthodox” Russia over the “Catholic” or “Protestant „Europe. In the course of its development Slavophile thought, growing in Russia since the mid-20s until the 60s and 70s the nineteenth century, was undergone some evolution. This article is intend-ed to demonstrate the difference between the perception of religious differences between Russia and Europe by so-called “classic Slavophiles” and in the late Slavophiles. The subject of compari-son will be here on the one hand the views of the creator of the foundations of the lavophile ideol-ogy, Ivan Kireyevsky, and the ideas of the late Slavophile theoretician, Nikolay Danilevsky.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 112-121
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish