The Antinihilist’s Thinking (Notes on N.N. Strakhov)
N.N. Strakhov is one of the greatest Russian thinkers of the 19 th century, who left no systematic theoretical heritage. His works are comprehensive, especially his literary and philosophical critique, but the thought, as the author supposes, is characterized by existential concreteness. It is directed against the artificial and lifeless in any conceptualism (especially against nihilism as its pro-Western historical form). N.N. Strakhov’s experience is most illuminating for the modern intellectual culture going through a new creative epoch of its history.