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Russia and Europe

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Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky was a Russian philosopher, sociologist, cultural scientist, and publicist. In his book "Russia and Europe" (1869), he was the first to define civilization as the primary form of organization for human societies. Distinctive principles, inherent only to certain peoples, constitute distinctive cultural and historical types. Each civilization, as a spiritual unity, exists within its own scale of coordinates. The attempt by one civilization to impose its system of spiritual values on another leads to catastrophe and the destruction of the latter. Danilevsky counted ten already embodied types and predicted the triumph of an eleventh—the Russian-Slavic.

The publication of "Russia and Europe" provoked a strong public response. Fyodor Dostoevsky enthusiastically welcomed Danilevsky's work, calling it "a reference book for every Russian." Another great philosopher, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, offered criticism, believing that the "true movement of history" consists precisely in the transmission of "cultural principles" between peoples. Danilevsky's questions about the closed and open nature of civilizations, about "originality" and globalism, remain relevant today.
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