Nikolay Dobrolyubov belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Nikolay Dobrolyubov as Russian critic and philosopher.
Nikolay Dobrolyubov was born at Nizhny Novgorod in 1836. His recorded nationality is Russia. He studied at Main Pedagogical Institute.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
That the work was done from Russia matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Nikolay Dobrolyubov died in 1861, aged 25. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
