Preface

Nikolaj Plotnikov

pp. 71-75

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

Abstract

One of the more important questions in contemporary philosophical and political discussions about the universal significance of human rights and dignity concerns comparison of images of the human person within distinct cultural historical contexts. In this regard the encounter, indeed sometimes the conflict, of the western European and Russian perspectives in interpreting the status and significance of this image within the history of Russian culture and philosophy are of particular interest.