Russian Émigré Philosophy and Religious Thought

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

In 1922, Lenin deported scores of prominent Russian philosophers. Other Russian thinkers and cultural figures left of their own volition, some before the revolution. Russian émigré thought and culture forms an important chapter in twentieth-century Russian and European intellectual history. This panel explores some of the key currents in that history, including classical Eurasianism in its relation to Russian religious thought, Semyon Frank’s philosophical conception of freedom, and Alexandre Koyré’s role as a genuinely international thinker at the border of Russian, German, and French philosophical inquiry.

Sub Unit

• Religion, Philosophy

Chair

• Randall Allen Poole, College of St. Scholastica

Papers

• Semyon Frank on Freedom -

• The Closed World: Alexandre Koyré’s Émigré Universe - Trevor Wilson, UNC at Chapel Hill

• 'We Come From Everywhere': Berdyaev, Religious Philosophy, and Ecumenical Friendship - Lisa Radakovich Holsberg, Fordham U

Discussant

• Randall Allen Poole, College of St. Scholastica