HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture 14: Lecture 17
8 Mar 2017
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History 2q03 - imperial russia - week 10. Ivan turgenev (1818-1883: diary of a super uous man (1850) The younger generations were dismissing him and herzen, and mocking them for being moderates: fathers and sons (1862) Sons were reacting against romanticism that they saw was pacifying the fathers. New radicals: lean, bespectacled, ascetic, humourless, high-string, insulting, uncompromising, impatient - all of these come to mind when one conjures up a picture of the radical raznochinets. Pomper: what can be broken, should be broken - dmitrii pisarov - nihilism, the observations of physiologists, zoologist, and medical men have driven away all thought of dualism in man. Philosophy sees in hims what medicine, physiology and chemistry see. These sciences prove that no dualism is evident in man, and philosophy adds that if man possessed another nature in addition to his real nature, this nature would reveal itself in some way - nikolai. The great reforms: alienated the conservative for doing too much.
