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Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev (14 October [O.S. 2 October] 1840 – 16 July [O.S. 4 July] 1868) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, and for the impact his advocacy of liberation movements and natural science had on Russian history.
PISAREV, DMITRY IVANOVICH (1840 – 1868), noted literary critic, radical social thinker, and proponent of "rational egoism" and nihilism. Born into the landed aristocracy, Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev studied at both Moscow University and St. Petersburg University, concentrating on philology and history.
Its most extreme exponent was Dmitry I. Pisarev, who held that all art is useless and that the only aim of thinking people should be “to solve forever the unavoidable question of hungry and naked people.”. In the last decades of the century the chief spokesman of social utilitarianism was….
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, and for the impact his advocacy of liberation movements and natural science had on Russian history.
Aug 5, 2009 · In the best Soviet work on Pisarev, , Radikalnyi raznochinets, D. I. Pisarev (Leningrad 1929, 1934), the author, Kirpotin, V., quotes Pisarev's statement that he as well as Belinski, Chernyshevski and Dobrulyubov, received all their idear in “Prepared form” from the Western writers.
- Frederick C. Barghoorn
- 1948
Dmitri Ivanovich Pisarev, the Russian literary critic and social philosopher, was educated at St. Petersburg University (1856 – 1861). His studies were interrupted by a nervous breakdown requiring four months of institutionalization. At this time he twice attempted suicide.
Dmitry Pisarev is the author of Crime and Punishment (4.27 avg rating, 926469 ratings, 38447 reviews, published 1866), Selected philosophical, social and...
