Scientific but unrealistic style in China

Author: (Russian) Herzen
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book includes four brilliant philosophical essays written by Herzen in the 1840s. In these essays, Herzen sharply criticizes the superficial and pretentious attitude of Moscow intellectuals in the mid-19th century, who were content with superficial knowledge in science and reluctant to engage in hard work. He provides an incisive analysis of the emergence, development, and decline of classical and romantic thought in Western Europe, and severely condemns the detachment from life and reality in the Russian philosophical circles of that time. Herzen fervently advocates linking philosophy with revolutionary struggles and serving the transformation of society. These essays by Herzen played a significant role in strengthening and developing the materialist tradition in Russian thought, earning him high praise from Belinsky.