Aesthetics of N.G. Chernyshevsky and V.S. Solovyov as the Way to the Transformation of the World

Abstract

It seems that two so different Russian thinkers as Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Vladimir Solovyov couldn’t have the common ideas, but this statement is wrong, Solovyov, who was thirty years younger than Chernyshevsky and according to his own statement refers to the opposite ideological camp, wrote the article “The first step to a positive aesthetic”, in which the philosopher has supported the concept of aesthetic Chernyshevsky, calling it “the first word of the true aesthetics”.