HISTORY OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY OR CHRONICLE OF RUSSIAN THOUGHT? DISCUSSION ABOUT RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY BY N. O. LOSSKY AND L. GALICH (L. E. GABRILOVICH)
The introductory article to the publication of archival materials of N. O. Lossky and Galich presents the semantic context of the controversy around the book by N. O. Lossky “History of Russian Philosophy” on the pages of the newspaper “New Russian Word”, published in New York. Opponents’ criticism (primarily L. Galich) of N. O. Lossky’s work and the disagreement of N. O. Lossky with the position of B. V. Yakovenko and a number of other thinkers who rejected Russian philosophy in originality, scientific character and independence, encourage N. O. Lossky to write and publish the articles “Is it true that Russian philosophy is not independent” and “Is it true that Russian philosophy is not scientific?”. Both of these articles by N. O. Lossky were submitted for publication by M. B. Losskaya (Avril) and are first published with handwritten edits by N. O. Lossky (introduced after the publication of the articles). Published materials also include an article by L. Galich “Chronicle of Russian thought”.