Immanuel Kant
1724 - 1804
HPI 92.35178 languages
Immanuel Kant is most famous for his work in the philosophy of ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics. He was a German philosopher who lived from 1724-1804.
This page contains a list of the greatest Russians Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,285 Philosophers, 30 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 12th most number of Philosophers behind Spain and Poland.
Top 10 Russian Philosophers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Russian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Russian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Russian Philosophers.
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Mikhail Bakunin
1814 - 1876
HPI 82.2292 languagesMikhail Bakunin is most famous for his involvement in the International Workingmen's Association and the First International, which he helped found.
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Mikhail Bakhtin
1895 - 1975
HPI 75.1758 languagesMikhail Bakhtin is most famous for his work on the dialogic novel. The dialogic novel is a novel that is written in the form of a dialogue. He also wrote on the carnivalesque, which is a type of literature that has a festive atmosphere.
#4 
Georgi Plekhanov
1856 - 1918
HPI 73.7857 languagesGeorgi Plekhanov was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and a founder of the social-democratic movement in Russia. He was a member of the first socialist organization in Russia, the Emancipation of Labor Group, and a founder of the first Russian social-democratic party, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.
#5 
Vladimir Solovyov
1853 - 1900
HPI 71.6249 languagesVladimir Solovyov was a Russian philosopher, poet, and theologian. He is most famous for his theory of love.
#6 
Alexandre Kojève
1902 - 1968
HPI 69.7333 languagesAlexandre Kojève was a Russian-born French philosopher who is most famous for his interpretation of Hegel's philosophy.
#7 
Johann Georg Hamann
1730 - 1788
HPI 69.6737 languagesJohann Georg Hamann is most famous for his work as a philosopher, theologian, and literary critic. He is often considered the father of modern literary criticism.
#8 
Alexandre Koyré
1892 - 1964
HPI 68.9631 languagesAlexandre Koyré is a historian of science who is most famous for his work on the Scientific Revolution.
#9 
Ivan Ilyin
1883 - 1954
HPI 66.4732 languagesRussian political philosopher (1883–1954)
#10 
Johann Christoph Gottsched
1700 - 1766
HPI 66.0035 languagesGerman writer, dramaturge, linguist and literary theorist as well as professor of poetics, logic and metaphysics (1700–1766)
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Overlapping Lives
Which Philosophers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Philosophers since 1700.
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