Philosopher
Alexander Herzen
Overview
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Александр Иванович Герцен, romanized: Aleksandr Ivanovich Gertsen; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts (written 1852–1870), is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature.
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Philosophers who discussed Alexander Herzen
- Lev Shestov
- Voltaire
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Georgi Plekhanov
- Moses Hess
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Ivan Kireyevsky
- Vladimir Lesevich
Ideas Alexander Herzen discusses
- Revolutions of 1848
- French Revolution
- Agrarianism
- Anarchism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Lev Shestov
- Individualism
- Isaiah Berlin
- Karl Marx
- Ivan Turgenev
- Leo Tolstoy
- Liberalism
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- Switzerland
- Socialism
- Turkish language
- French Revolution of 1848
- Tom Stoppard
- Metanarrative
- Voltaire
- January Uprising
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Vissarion Belinsky
Place in the tradition
Part of Russian philosophy.