Nicolay Danilevsky In Russian Culture And World Science

Abstract

This is one of the articles devoted to the different aspects of creative activity of N. Danilevsky - well-known Russian historian and philosopher, sociologist, ethnopsychologist, author of a number of theoretical works, economical and statistical papers. Danilevsky was also a talented writer, and his 'Europe and Russia1 published firstly in Germany in 1920 after his death had become very popular for the recent decades of our century. N. Danilevsky wrote one of the best book of his period in the theoretic light of style ,from one hand, of militant panslavism and panslavophilism; agrarian socialism (like A. von Shelting, H. Con, F. Fadner and so on), and from other hand according to the best traditions of western historical and cultural thinkers as O. Shpengler, A.J. Toynbee. N. Danilevsky was a creator of the original conception of historical development. He believed that world history was the history of self-development of 11 self-dependent civilizations. To some researchers' minds N. Danilevsky was a totalitarian theorist and ideologist of marxist totalitarian approach and soviet foreign policy. They pointed out Danilevsky's typological proximity with slavophilism and emphasized that the idea of the synthesis of the West and Russia and shared by everybody all-human culture was absolutely alien lo him. U. Pivovarov tries lo accept various parts and brings about integration between various alienated parts of the image and real Danilevsky. N. Danilevsky was a misty figure in the history become aware of what we were doing and got what we choose in life. It's deeply a part of Russian heritage and it being maintained by several generations of the most educated and intelligent people in our country and far away as a personality of such frightening degree arose spiritually that he was shocked into awakening.