| Titre | Amitié et polémique : Herzen critique de Quinet | |
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| Auteur | Michel Mervaud | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 17, no 1, janvier-mars 1976 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 53-79 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Michel Mervaud, Friendship and polemics. Herzen criticizes Quinet.
The friendship between Herzen and Quinet is a strange one. Based on reciprocal admiration for each other's talent, backed by a common aspiration to liberty, it did not exclude important divergencies of views. Herzen sets them out publicly in his articles and in his Byloe i dumy. Would it not be true to say that he considered Quinet as a representative of French thought, traditionally timid? The religious tendency of Quinet was foreign to Herzen, who was a materialist and an atheist. Neither could he persuade the moderate republican Quinet to share his views as to Western or "Russian" socialism. Furthermore, if he taxed Quinet with being exclusively absorbed in France and with lamenting its decline, he himself appears, first and foremost, as a Russian, concentrating all his hopes on his people.
We endeavoured to bring forth the meeting of the two exiles in Switzerland, quoting the unpublished Mémorial of Mme Quinet, which retraces in detail these discussions and gives vivid descriptions of Herzen. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1976_num_17_1_1256 |
