St Petersburg Center
for the History of Ideas
Санкт-Петербургский
Центр истории идей
CONTENTS
Foreword 6
Tatiana Artemyeva
Russian History Between the State and Academia in the Enlightenment 9
Pekka Hongisto
Notes on Nature and Radical Philosophy 23
Teemu Ikonen
The Critique of Narrative Thinking in the French Enlightenment: Ambivalence toward Histoire from Voltaire to Diderot 36
Mikko Lahtinen
Montesquieu as a Philosopher of Enlightenment 56
Mikhail Mikeshin
History as a Family Affair: An Aristocratic View 88
Vesa Oittinen
The Emergence of Humanity as Self-Causation — Herder’s ‘Spinozistic’ Theory of Historical Development 99
Oili Pulkkinen
[According to the author’s request the paper is not published on the net] 116
Аlla Zlatopolskaya
La polémique entre Voltaire et Rousseau sur l’histoire de la Russie et la pensée russe 130
List of Contributors 140
ISBN 978-5-906555-97-7
The Philosophical Age. Almanac 40. The Northern Lights. Enlightenment and History: A View from Northern Europe and Russia. Ed. by T. Artemyeva, M. Mikeshin, V. Oittinen. St. Petersburg–Helsinki: St. Petersburg Center for the History of Ideas, 2014. 142 p.
Философский век. Альманах. Выпуск 40. Северное сияние. Просвещение и история: взгляд из Северной Европы и России / Отв. редакторы Т.В. Артемьева, М.И. Микешин, В. Ойттинен. СПб.–Хельсинки: Санкт-Петербургский центр истории идей, 2014. 142 с.
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