| Titre | Le dernier écrit de Čaadaev : Un inédit | |
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| Auteur | François Rouleau | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 15, no 3-4, juillet-décembre 1974 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Document |
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| Page | 409-413 | |
| Résumé anglais |
François Rouleau, The last written work of Čaadaev. An unpublished letter.
The name of Čaadaev remains in history attached to his famous Philosophical letter which created a scandal at the time of its publication in 1836. The recent publication of the complete collection of Philosophical letters allows to correct in a notable way the traditional image of Čaadaev and of his thought. There still remains to make public the numerous, significative though fragmentary, unpublished works of which a good number was written in French. A special place must be given to the text which is to be found here, because it is the last known written work of Čaadaev. It is in a way his intellectual testament in which he recapitulates his ideas as a whole concerning Russia, stylizing them around three factors: geographical, historical and social: the immense extent of the territory, the spirit of Byzantine orthodoxy and serfdom.
This final point reached by Čaadaev's thought constitutes a decisive element for the understanding of the quarrel between the Occidentalists and the Slavophiles, a key to the history of ideas in Russia during the 19th century. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1974_num_15_3_1215 |
