Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Николай Чернышевский
Born(1828-07-24)24 July 1828
Died29 October 1889(1889-10-29) (aged 61)
NationalityRussian
Notable workWhat Is to Be Done?
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionRussian philosophy
School
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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.

  1. ^ "Chernyshevskii, Nikolai Gavrilovich (1828–1889)". Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 11 August 2020 – via Encyclopedia.com.


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