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Диалектика секуляризации в России: к оценке «Истории русской философии» Василия Зеньковского
There is an ongoing debate regarding the dialectics of secularization in the Western Europe and USA. For instance, one of the key works in the field is Charles Taylor's A Secular Age dedicated to the role of metaphysics in the development of Western secularism. However, the process of secularization in the Russian context remains beyond the scope of the current scholarly discussions. Dealing with the dialectics of secularization in the history of Russian philosophy, the author draws a parallel between Charles Taylor’s fundamental work A Secular Age and Vasily Zenkovsky’s History of Russian Philosophy. The aim of the paper is to show that Zenkovsky’s work can be viewed as an analysis of secular and antisecular discourses in the Russian intellectual landscape. Despite the major methodological shortcomings in the analysis of secularization, Zenkovsky does a brilliant work as a historian of thought. The detailed examination he provides helps us to trace the influence of secular ‘Nova-Effect’ in the Russian context. Taylor coines the term for the intellectual consequences of the ‘exclusive humanism’ in Europe. Among the main disadvantages of History of Russian Philosophy are insufficient conceptual articulation of the notion of secularism as well as inattention to the political context of Russian philosophical discourse. Nevertheless, it is demonstrated that accurate analysis of Zenkovsky’s work can ground further research of the dialectics of secularization in the history of Russian thought.