A Political Dimension of the Russian Religious Philosophy

Abstract

In this interview, Dr. Konstantin Antonov, historian of the Russian religious thought, gives a diachronic overview of the political ideas and attitudes of the religious thinkers, starting with the Slavophils and ending up with the post-1917 emigre philosophers. Antonov stays within the scope of the so called “religious philosophy” which emerged in the secularized culture of the 19 ^th - 20 ^th centuries in distinction with the regular church theology. The philosophical aspect of the political discourse within this scope is under particular scrutiny in the interview. Antonov also tries to explain the reasons of why the works of the religious philosophers are now neglected or even ignored, both within the church theological milieu and beyond it.