Day: March 12, 2014

Ivan Vasilievich Kireevsky (1806-1856) was a 19th century Russian religious philosopher, literary critic, publicist, and one of the principle theorists of the Slavophile movement. The following is the first part of a letter he wrote to his friend Count E. E. Komarovsky, entitled, “On the Character of the European Enlightenment and its Relationship to the Russian Enlightenment” (1852).…