Education of the Heart: Cultural Transfers, Forms of Subjectivity, and the Rise of Pedagogy in Late 18th-Century Russia

• In Event: Education, Ideology, and the Making of Knowledge in the Russian Empire

Abstract

This paper examines the emergence of pedagogical discourse in the late 18th-century Russian Empire. Focusing on a group of intellectuals connected to Moscow University and active in the 1780s, I explore their role as mediators in transferring new educational theories from Germany to Russia and analyze their institutional context. Additionally, I address the broader question of the forms of subjectivity envisioned in European pedagogical thought at the time and reconstruct their social and political implications within the framework of imperial Russia.

Author

• Oleg Larionov, U of Oxford (UK)