Kant e l'ortodossia russa. Accademie ecclesiastiche e filosofia in Russia tra XVIII e XIX secolo [Kant and Russian Orthodoxy. Ecclesiastical Academies and philosophy in Russia between the XVIII and XIX century]

Firenze University Press, 2017.

Pozzi V.

The book focuses on the early spread of Kantianism (especially the Critique of Pure Reason) in the Russian Empire. This reception is analysed in the specific intellectual environment of the Ecclesiastical Academies – a wide analysis of their features, both historical and philosophical, is provided. The history and the sources belonging to the phenomenon of philosophising at Ecclesiastical Academiesare also investigated here through case studies: in responding to Kant’s Copernican revolution, the authors examined proved to be fully aware of the necessity of confronting the Criticism. The book contains an addendum with a wide-ranging review of the philosophical historiography of the reception of Kantianism in Russia up to 2015.

Keywords: Russian intellectual history, history of Russian philosophy, Russian Enlightenment, Philosophy in Russia, Russian Ecclesiastical Academies, St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy, Philosophizing at Russian Ecclesiastical Academies, I.Ya. Vetrinsky, P.D. Yurkevich