TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berest,Julia
TI  - The Emergence of Russian Liberalism: Alexander Kunitsyn in Context, 1783-1840 
T2  - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
SN  - 9780230111738
AV  - CT 1218 .K827 B47 2011
PY  - 2011///, 2011
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Kunit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Petrovich,
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - Russia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Law teachers
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Natural law
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 1801-1917
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Alexander I, 1801-1825
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index; Formative years -- Years in the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum -- Kunitsyn in the Son of Fatherland -- Kunitsyn and Nicholas Turgenev : the Society of the Year 1819 -- Natural law tradition in Russia -- Natural law -- In the midst of conservative reaction -- Epilogue
N2  - "This study offers a fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism by looking at the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings contributed to the dissemination of Western liberal thought among the Russian public. Placed into the broad intellectual and political context of its time, Kunitsyn's life illuminates the history of legal philosophy and early liberalism in Russia--the topics that remain little studied in Russian and Western scholarships. One of the chapters is devoted to the textual and historical analysis of the major works on legal philosophy published in early nineteenth century Russia, none of which has been examined before. A comparison with other thinkers highlights Kunitsyn's distinctly individualistic and liberal interpretation of the natural law theory. It also explains why the publication of his work triggered an official reaction against the teaching of natural law and philosophy in Russian universities"--Provided by publisher
ER  -