The Philosophy of Modernity and its Refraction in Russia — Daria Dugina

The present text was an essay written for one of Daria Platonova Dugina’s courses at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

Western philosophy came to Russia in rather strange ways. There was no logic or consistent sequence. We took some things from the West, often by coincidence, such as whatever was popular there, while neglecting other more important things. Hence the quirkiness of Russian-Western philosophical dialogue. At times, these fragments have been reconciled with…