Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Николай Чернышевский
Born	(1828-07-24)24 July 1828 Saratov, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	29 October 1889(1889-10-29) (aged 61) Saratov, Russian Empire
Nationality	Russian
Notable work	What Is to Be Done?
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Russian philosophy
School	Russian nihilism[1] Utopian socialism Narodism
Main interests	Russian literature materialism positivism aesthetics
Notable ideas	Rational egoism Humans as chemical compounds Materialist conception of aesthetics
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Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky^[a] (24 July [O.S. 12 July] 1828 – 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and Narodniks. He was the dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia, despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, and was later highly praised by Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin.

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