The Cultural Critics And Reconstruction Of Religious Philosophy In The Russian Silver Age

It is the "Silver Period" of the Russian cultural development in the end of 19th and the early age in 20th as well as the "Golden Age" of Russian philosophical creation. The outstanding representatives of the religious philosophy are Nikolai Berdiaev, C. Frank, Lev Shestov and etc. It's no doubt that they are the shining stars in the dazzling and splendor cultural screen of Russian philosophy. As the highest peak of Russian religious philosophy development, on the one hand, it inherited and developed the unique religious culture of spiritual disposition and research topic of Russia. Also, it reconsidered and constructed the spiritual connotation of national culture in the modernized context. On the other hand, it is exposed to western reasonable culture crisis in the modern period through a unique way, which can have the interaction and make the dialogue with existentialism in the various philosophical schools and the trend of thought. This thesis is intended to make a research from the view of cultural philosophy. First of all, it makes an analysis towards the national disposition of Russia and religious culture tradition. While comparing horizontally with spiritual development of western reasonable culture, it summarizes the essential features of traditional culture mode in Russia. Furthermore, it makes a general probe into the critics and theoretical reconstruction of the religious philosophy during the period of Silver Age. Also, it illustrates specifically from the thinking approach and cultural theme mainly about the five important thinkers of the religious philosophy in the schools of Epistemology and Humanism. Finally, it redefines the illustration towards the critics and the reconstructed connotation in about the cultural spirits of the traditional religion in Russia during the period of Silver Age. Besides the references and the brilliance from the western reasonable culture spirit, it also makes comments on the value of the reconstruction in cultural spirit from the field of the religious philosophy.