Evgeny Anichkov: Prolegomena to the Interpretation

Abstract

It is necessary to return into the Russian academic context the name of Evgeny Anichkov — theorist and historian of literature, apprentice and disciple of A. N. Veselovsky, philosopher of culture. In emigration Anichkov continued to publish articles and books, he particularly analyzed the place of A. I. Herzen and N. G. Chernyshevsky in the history of Russian social thought. Unlike most contemporaries, Anichkov sharply contrasted these thinkers, revealing a number of antagonistic traits and intentions in life and work of each of them.