N.I. KAREEV ON THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF CULTURES IN LINE WITH THE HISTORIOSOPHY OF THE SLAVOPHILES
The views of N.I. Kareev on the problem of mutual influence of cultures through the prism of the philosophy of Slavophiles are analyzed. Using the example of three representatives of Slavophilism, the dynamics of the idea of contrasting Russian and Western culture is studied. The following stages of this process are revealed: the first stage is the criticism of cultural borrowing, but without direct distancing from the values of the West (A.S. Khomyakov); the second is the juxtaposition of the historical origins of both cultures (K.S. Aksakov); the third is the recognition of Russia's complete alienation from the West (V.I. Lamansky). It is revealed that, according to Kareev, the historical and cultural skepticism of the Slavophiles helped to raise the question of the value of any type of culture, not only in the dichotomy «Russia - Europe», but also «East - West».