Towards a Story of one Failure: about the collection of Eurasians “Russia and Latinism”
Publication Title:
Towards a Story of one Failure: about the collection of Eurasians “Russia and Latinism”
Abstract:
The idea, the history of the appearance and the content of the collection of Eurasians “Russia and Latinism” are considered. It is noted that this publication, although it does not attract significant attention from researchers, is a very revealing and instructive experience of self-determination of Eurasians between East and West using approaches of philosophical comparative studies, the history of ideas of the historical-genetic method and elements of cognitive-semantic analysis, the history of ideas of Eurasians is studied. The author highlights the practical motives of Nikolai Trubetskoy and other organizers of the Eurasian movement in preparing the collection, as well as their interest in countering the plans of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia. Two main layers in the semantic content of the collection are identified: the first of them consists of polemical anti-Latin texts by P.N. Savitsky, P.P. Suvchinsky and N.S. Trubetskoy; the second is the reference and analytical texts by P.M. Bitsilli, G.V. Vernadsky, A.V. Kartashev, G.V. Florovsky and V.N. Ilyin. The first group of authors is considered as polemicists, the second – as commentators. Considerable attention is paid to the review of the collection of Eurasians by the famous philosopher Abroad I.A. Ilyin, as well as to the clarification of the reasons for such a favorable attitude of the philosopher to this collection. Both the practical and conceptual failure of the collection “Russia and Latinism” is stated, since in the optics of the Eurasians the profile of “Latinism” turned out to be very vague. The reasons for this failure include not only the haste in preparing the collection due to opportunistic motives, but also the lack of willingness of Eurasians to study and interpret the spiritual and cultural experience of the Christian West.
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Key words:
Russian diaspora, Eurasianism, Latinism, philosophical comparativism
The DOI index:
10.17588/2076-9210.2025.2.080-093
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