concept
Russian nihilism
nihilism
also: нигилизм
A self-identified 1860s-70s Russian intellectual and political movement (the term popularized by Turgenev's Fathers and Sons) rejecting traditional authority, aesthetics, and religion in favor of scientific rationalism and, in its more radical wing, revolutionary action; one of the successive total convictions in Likharev's autobiographical catalogue.
Reading notes
- On the Road §56 I threw myself into nihilism
Russian nihilism, as a self-identified 1860s-70s intellectual and political movement (the term popularized by Turgenev's Fathers and Sons), rejected traditional authority, aesthetics, and religion in favor of scientific rationalism and, in its more radical wing, revolutionary action; Likharev folds it into his list of successive, wholesale "faiths" rather than treating it as a stable position.