Contributor Biographies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Note on the Text and Translation xxi
6. Editor’s Introduction: Philosophy and Politics in the Russian Liberation Movement 1
7. From the Moscow Psychological Society 79
8. Foreword to the Russian Edition 81
9. 1. Basic Problems of the Theory of Progress 85
10. 2. Toward Characterization of the Theory of Marx and Engels on the Significance of Ideas in History 124
11. 3. Toward Characterization of Our Philosophical Development 143
12. 4. The Ethical Problem in the Light of Philosophical Idealism 161
13. 5. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Ethics of “Love of the Distant” 198
14. 6. Philosophy and Life 242
15. 7. What the History of Philosophy Teaches 258
16. 8. Ethical Idealism in the Philosophy of Law 274
17. 9. The “Russian Sociological School” and the Category of Possibility in the Solution of Social-Ethical Problems 325
18. 10. The Basic Principles of Auguste Comte’s Sociological Doctrine 356
19. 11. Renan as Champion of Freedom of Thought 416
20. 12. On the Question of Moral Creativity 422
21. Glossary of Names 437
22. Contributor Biographies 445
23. Index 457