ХЕРЦЕН И НАШЕ ВРЕМЕ
HERZEN AND OUR TIMES

Summary/Abstract: The work of Alexander Herzen My Past and Thoughts is one of his most important philosophical works. It has been published for the first time in full in Serbian back in 1951, in three volumes. At that time, some of his other works have also been published, for example his Letters on Studying Nature. After 65 years, a new translation of Herzen’s book My Past and Thoughts has appeared. A Serbian reader is now able not only to become acquainted with an extraordinary overview of development of Russian philosophical and social thought, but also European currents in which Herzen himself played an important role, evolution of thought of various actors as well as the epilogue: from great hopes of Europe to major disappointments. Tha author maintains that in Herzen’s vast opus this book occupies a special place. In it, we can find a gist of thoughts and actions of an insightful mind the openness of which can easily be compared to Rousseau or Voltaire. Herzen was well-known and influential in Serbia too, especially in the late 19th century and until the outbreak of Balkan wars and the First World War. Some people from Serbia who had at that time acquired their education in Europe had in various ways communicated with him as well as other Russian revolutionaries of different stripes, asking major questions about the direction Serbia should take.

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