Obronić kulturę przed geniuszem. Filozofowie rosyjscy wobec nihilizmu Lwa Tołstoja
To defend a culture against the genius. Russian philosophers and Leo Tolstoy’s nihilism

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the fragment of discussion about Leo Tolstoy’s critic of culture. It is concernedon ideas of some Russian philosophers from the first half of the XXth Century: N.A. Berdyaev,S.N. Bulgakov, S.L. Frank, S.I. Hessen, L. Shestov and P.B. Struve. Author wants to analyze suchproblems as: the origins of Tolstoy’s negation of culture, culture as religious and social problem, culture and Christianity, nihilism and asceticism, domination of ethics in Tolstoy’s life and thoughts, Tolstoy’s idea of “simplification/barbarisation”. These problems, which Tolstoy has formulated with unusual radicalism, would be examined by presentation of the arguments of the Tolstoy’s critical commentators which try to defend a culture against one of the biggest creators of cultural values.

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