Work and Letters / Philosophical Letters

A rare reprint of Russian philosopher Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev's works

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Printing Details

First thus. Hardback, bound in green cloth with faint green titling to spine. 24.5 × 17cm, vii + 440pp, viii + 342pp. Text in Russian and French.

A reprint of 1913–1913 Moscow edition. A collection of the works and letters of Russian philosopher Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (1794–1856), in particular his Philosophical Letters of the 1830s which argued that Russia had lagged behind Western countries and had contributed nothing to the world's progress and concluded that Russia must start de novo. They weren't well received—the editor of the journal that published them was exiled to Siberia and Tsar Nicholas I considered them written by a madman (leading to Chaadayev being declared insane).

Condition

This copy is in strong readable condition, though the head of the spine has been scuffed and with a little tanning to the page edges.

ISBN

0902672134