Kant and Russian Philosophy. Italian Perspective
Keywords:
I. Kant, Russian philosophy, Philosophizing at Russian Theological Academies, Russian Kantianism, I. Ya. Vetrinskii, P.D. Yurkevich, Italian historiography, Russian philosophy abroad, Russian studies, V. PozziAbstract
The review presents the recently published monograph of Italian scholar Vera Pozzi “Kant and
Russian Orthodoxy. Spiritual Academies and philosophy in Russia between 18th and 19th centuries”. The book is dedicated to a detailed reconstruction of the reception of Kant and his philosophy in Russian spiritual academies based on two case studies (“the case of I. Vetrinskii” and “the
case of P. Yurkevich”). Pozzi examines various philosophical responses of Russian thinkers to Kant’s Copernican revolution and for the first time in scientific literature provides a deep analysis
of the latin text of Vetrinskii “Institutiones Metaphysicae”. Overall, the monograph disproves
the prevalent notion of the incompatibility of Kant and Russian religious thought and shows that
the attitude toward Kantian philosophy within Russian Orthodox thought was more balanced and
favorable than is generally believed.
