Sergej N. Trubetskoj and the concept of "subject" in the history of russian thought

Nikolaj Plotnikov

pp. 197-208

in: Nikolaj Plotnikov (ed), The Discourse of personality in the Russian intellectual tradition, Studies in East European Thought 61, 2009.

Abstract

The basic tendencies in the conceptual history of the "subject' within Russian intellectual history are presented. This backgrounds a closer analysis of S. Trubetskoj's concept of "conciliar consciousness', including the problems and aporiae connected with it. It will be shown that and how this conception depends on assumptions from prekantian metaphysics and therefore ignores the Kantian account of subjectivity.