Danilevsky on the National Character of Cultural-Historical Types

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Danilevsky on the National Character of Cultural-Historical Types

Thursday 28 November 2024 is the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky (Никола́й Я́ковлевич Даниле́вский—his name is transliterated from the Cyrillic script in various ways; 28 November 1822 – 07 November 1885), who was born in the village of Oberets on this date in 1822.

Danilevsky is usually identified as a Slavophile and a Pan-Slavic philosopher, with the implication that his work is of little relevance to Westerners, but Danilevsky’s cultural-historical types were an important anticipation of Spengler, and Danilevsky’s distinctive conception of science can be understood as a mechanism that would drive the incommensurability that Spengler attributed to different civilizations.

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My paper cited in this episode: https://keplerspaceinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JSP-Fall-2023-6_Nielsen-Final.pdf “The Develes Engynnes: Technological Textures of Life on Earth and in Space”

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