EPISODE 50 - Konstantin Leontiev: The Russian Orthodox Nietzsche
Update: 2025-09-07
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Ethan Alexander-Davey and Glenn Cronin discuss the penetrating insights of the 19th century Russian Orthodox writer Konstantin Leontiev, an aristocratic voice who has become an important figure in Russian intellectual and political life since 1991, but remains unknown in the West. The conversation focuses on Dr. Cronin’s recent book, Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev. Leontiev’s political philosophy combines a Nietzschean aestheticism with Orthodox Christian culture, which he called “Byzantinism.”
Works by Glenn Cronin
Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev
The Enduring Enigma of Lev Tikhomirov
Works by Ethan Alexander-Davey
Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times
Aristocracy and the Καλλίπολις: Konstantin Leontiev and the Politics of ‘Flourishing Complexity'
Konstantin Leontiev in English
Byzantinism and Slavdom
Lev Tikhomirov in English
Why I Ceased to be a Revolutionary
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6:48 Why read KL?
11:26 Two Stories About KL
17:57 Aestheticism
24:48 Orthodoxy
31:01 Theory of Civilizational Development
36:49 Nationalist, but Against Ethnic Nationalism
41:25 Criticisms of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy
48:45 Augustine's Influence
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