Cultural foundations of the style of philosophising (a comparison of N. O. Lossky's oeuvre with I. Kant's anthropology)

Abstract

The concepts of style and topos in their cultural studies interpretation by Yu. V. Rozhdestvensky are applied to the analysis of some fragments of N. O. Lossky's philosophical concept pertaining to the features of Russian culture in general and the originality of Russian philosophy in particular. The topic is developed through comparative digressions into the field of anthropological aspects of I. Kant's philosophy.

Keywords

• style
• philosophising style
• topos (commonplace)
• Yu. V. Rizhdesrvensky
• N. O. Lossky
• I. Kant's anthropology
• original features of Russian culture and philosophy
• national character