State at War: The Phenomenology of the Russian World by Max Scheler and Kurt Stavenhagen

• Authors: Andrzej Gniazdowski

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the theoretical background and practical meaning of the so called war writings which emerged within the phenomenological movement during the First World War. The author exemplifies it by researching the works of two German representatives of this movement, Max Scheler and Kurt Stavenhagen. He focuses on their application of the phenomenological method to the analysis of Russian national identity, and historical as well as cultural foundations of Russian state. The paper’s main thesis is that the politicization and militarization of phenomenology consisted in both “personalization” and “sociologization” of the phenomenological approach to the problem of the state. While interpreting Scheler’s personalism as an exemplification of the approach to the state as a problem of social ontology, the author reconstructs the theoretical conditions of analyzing the Russian imperial state in terms of the “world.” The focus of the paper is particularly on the phenomenology of, as Scheler put it, Russian collective personality and Russian national consciousness or “soul” as well as on the question of legitimacy of Ukrainian resistance against Russian imperialism.

Keywords

EN

phenomenology; two sides theory of the state; legal positivism; pure theory of law; First World War; Russian imperialism; Ukrainian affair

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 107-122

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Andrzej Gniazdowski

• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000301037668

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2022.0038

Biblioteka Nauki

2197132