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The Crisis of Western Philosophy (Against the Positivists)
Кризис западной философии (против позитивистов)

Master's thesis defended in St Petersburg on 24 November 1874. It surveys modern philosophy from Descartes to Hegel, Schopenhauer and Hartmann and argues that, rationalism and empiricism having been exhausted, Western thought leads to the need for an integral knowledge reconciling reason with faith and mystical experience. Positivism appears not as a way beyond but as a symptom of that crisis. It was the young Solovyov's public debut and the programme of all his later work.
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The Crisis of Western Philosophy: Against the Positivists
Lindisfarne Press, 1996
Translation: Boris Jakim
ISBN 0940262738
Traducción y edición de Boris Jakim (Library of Russian Philosophy)
Русский
Vladimir Solovyov
Кризис западной философии. По поводу «Философии бессознательного» Гартмана
The Conscious LibraryКризис западной философии. По поводу «Философии бессознательного» Гартмана
Redacción de «Православное обозрение», Moscú, 1874
Primera edición (39 pp.)
Other works by Vladimir Solovyov
- The Mythological Process in Ancient Paganism · 1873
- Auguste Comte's Theory of the Three Phases in the Intellectual Development of Mankind · 1874
- On the Philosophical Works of P. D. Yurkevich · 1874
- A Strange Misunderstanding (Reply to Mr Lesevich) · 1874
- Metaphysics and Positive Science · 1875
- On the Reality of the External World and the Foundation of Metaphysical Knowledge (Reply to Kavelin) · 1875
- La Sophia · 1876
- The Three Forces · 1877
- The Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge · 1877
- Lectures on Godmanhood · 1878
- Critique of Abstract Principles · 1880
- The Historical Deeds of Philosophy · 1880
- Three Speeches in Memory of Dostoevsky · 1883
- A Note in Defence of Dostoevsky against the Charge of a 'New' Christianity · 1883
- On Spiritual Authority in Russia · 1881
- On the Schism in the Russian People and Society · 1882
- The Spiritual Foundations of Life · 1884
- The Great Controversy and Christian Politics · 1883
- Jewry and the Christian Question · 1884
- Love for the People and the Russian National Ideal (Open Letter to I. S. Aksakov) · 1884
- Russia and Europe. Reply to N. Ya. Danilevsky · 1888
- How to Awaken Our Church Forces? (Open Letter to S. A. Rachinsky) · 1885
- The Israel of the New Testament · 1885
- The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (Introduction to the Russian Edition of the Didache) · 1886
- The Dogmatic Development of the Church in Connection with the Question of Church Reunion · 1886
- The History and Future of Theocracy · 1887
- The Russian Idea · 1888
- Russia and the Universal Church · 1889
- The National Question in Russia · 1891
- Beauty in Nature · 1889
- The General Meaning of Art · 1890
- China and Europe · 1890
- On Lyric Poetry · 1890
- The Illusion of Poetic Creation · 1890
- On the Decline of the Medieval Worldview · 1891
- Idols and Ideals · 1891
- From the Philosophy of History · 1891
- The People's Calamity and Social Aid · 1891
- Our Sins and Our Duty · 1891
- The Enemy from the East · 1892
- A Note on H. P. Blavatsky · 1892
- The Meaning of Love · 1894
- The Buddhist Mood in Poetry · 1894
- A First Step towards a Positive Aesthetics · 1894
- The Poetry of F. I. Tyutchev · 1895
- Byzantinism and Russia · 1896
- Muhammad: His Life and Religious Teaching · 1896
- When Did the Hebrew Prophets Live? · 1896
- Law and Morality: Essays in Applied Ethics · 1897
- The Fate of Pushkin · 1897
- The Concept of God (In Defence of Spinoza's Philosophy) · 1897
- The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy · 1897
- Theoretical Philosophy · 1899
- The Life Drama of Plato · 1898
- Mickiewicz · 1898
- The Mystery of Progress · 1898
- The Idea of the Superman · 1899
- Lermontov · 1899
- The Meaning of Poetry in Pushkin's Verse · 1899
- Sunday and Holiday Letters · 1898
- Three Conversations on War, Progress and the End of World History, Including a Short Tale of the Antichrist · 1900
- Last Lecture at St Petersburg University (1882) · 1882
- Obituaries · 1900
- Articles in the Brockhaus–Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary · 1900
- Poems · 1891
- Three Meetings · 1898
- Pan-Mongolism · 1894
- Ex oriente lux · 1890
- The Burning Bush · 1891
- Dear Friend, Do You Not See…? · 1892
- Das Ewig-Weibliche: A Word of Admonition to the Sea Devils · 1898
- The Dragon (To Siegfried) · 1900
- The White Lily, or A Dream on the Night of the Protection · 1880
- The Works of Plato (translation) · 1899
- Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (translation) · 1889
- Hoffmann's The Golden Pot (translation)
- Letters · 1908
- Collected Works · 1901
Sources
- «Соловьёв, Владимир Сергеевич». Wikipedia en ruso (biografía, relación de obras con enlaces a las ediciones digitales).
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