Long 19th c. · 1828–1889
Who influenced Nikolay Chernyshevsky?
Influences and legacy
What Is to Be Done? — the utilitarian, materialist catechism of the Russian radicals.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky was influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach and Alexander Herzen, and went on to influence Georgi Plekhanov. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Read on Wikipedia Portrait: Published by Russian Information Bureau, NY, 1918, Public domain See the whole map
Who was Nikolay Chernyshevsky?
Nikolay Chernyshevsky was a Russian critic, journalist, novelist and socialist philosopher, often described as a utopian socialist and the leading theorist of Russian nihilism and the Narodniks.
He was the dominant thinker of the revolutionary democratic movement of the 1860s, even though he spent much of his later life in exile in Siberia. Marx, Plekhanov and Lenin all praised him.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Nikolay Chernyshevsky?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Ludwig Feuerbach 1804–1872
- Alexander Herzen 1812–1870
Who did Nikolay Chernyshevsky influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
- Georgi Plekhanov 1856–1918
The line of teachers behind Nikolay Chernyshevsky
The longest documented line of influence ending at Nikolay Chernyshevsky runs 24 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Two steps away from Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Indirect influences
- Through Ludwig Feuerbach: Denis Diderot, Georg W. F. Hegel
- Through Alexander Herzen: Pyotr Chaadayev
The second generation
- Through Georgi Plekhanov: Sergei Bulgakov
Contemporaries of Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Nikolay Chernyshevsky, with no direct line between them.
- Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
- Nikolai Fyodorov 1829–1903
- Thomas Henry Huxley 1825–1895
- Wilhelm Wundt 1832–1920
- Wilhelm Dilthey 1833–1911
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821–1881
- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
- Herbert Spencer 1820–1903
Nikolay Chernyshevsky by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 93
- Thinkers downstream
- 2
- Wikipedia languages
- 53 — #33 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Who influenced Nikolay Chernyshevsky?
- Ludwig Feuerbach and Alexander Herzen.
- Who did Nikolay Chernyshevsky influence?
- Georgi Plekhanov.
- When did Nikolay Chernyshevsky live?
- 1828–1889. The map files Nikolay Chernyshevsky under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Nikolay Chernyshevsky card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Nikolay Chernyshevsky in 53 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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