Original scientific paper

How it started. On Russian Intelligentsia and French Intellectuals

Andreja Stojković ; Institute for Social Research, University of Zagreb

Abstract

Knowledge about the origin of intelligentsia as a social group is important for the understanding of the relation between society and the intelligentsia. The author finds its roots, in the generation of nihilists and populists of the 1860s’ in Russia. As well as emphasizing certain peculiarities which make the intelligentsia a unique Russian phenomenon' the author finds some »-archetypal structures« within it. It is essential to develop a critical sociology which would confront the apologetic treatment of intelligentsia. In this sense the author analyses a voluntaristic claim for a radical break with the intellectual inheritance. Moral sensitiveness, publicity, oppositional political convictions are some of the common characteristics of Russian intelligentsia and French intellectuals. Instead of developing a definition of these concepts the author tries to systematize the difficulties arising from such an attempt.

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Hrčak ID:

155700

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155700

Publication date:

31.12.1987.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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