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(2013) Studies in East European Thought 65 (3-4).
The impact of Hegelian philosophy on Belinskij's thinking and especially on his self-understanding did not end with his well-known and ostentatious anti-Hegelian tirades. By focusing on Belinskij's tormented early years in Petersburg, after he had supposedly reneged on his "reconciliation with reality," this paper will attempt to show how the continued conceptual evolution of Belinskij's Hegelian thinking was intimately interrelated with his personal striving for self-realization. Ultimately, Hegelian ideas not only allowed Belinskij to affirm a unique sense of self as the subject of a not-yet-world-historical nation, they also served as the crucial theoretical framework that would finally allow Belinskij to conceptualize the essential, organic connection between Russian literature and Russian life, as evidenced in his monumental eleven-part study on Pushkin.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11212-014-9193-2
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Shkolnikov, V. (2013). The philosophical cap of Yegor Fjodorovič or becoming Belinskij. Studies in East European Thought 65 (3-4), pp. 175-187.
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