Nikolai Strakhov and the Synthesis of Wholeness in Nature and Human Consciousness

• In Event: Byss and Abyss: Orientations toward Immanence and Transcendence in Russian Thought and Literature

Abstract

In this paper, I consider the extent to which the Russian organicist Nikolai Strakhov conceives of “wholeness” as an intuitive principle, located within man’s consciousness and projected onto reality. I will compare Strakhov’s conception of organic wholeness to Ivan Kireevsky’s theory of “integral knowledge.”

Author

• Jillian Pignataro, Northwestern U