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September 7, 2025 59 mins
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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Chapters

  • (00:00:00) - Introduction
  • (00:02:09) - Who is Konstantin Leontiev?
  • (00:06:48) - Why Read Leontiev?
  • (00:11:26) - Two Stories About Leontiev
  • (00:17:57) - Aestheticism
  • (00:24:48) - Orthodoxy
  • (00:31:01) - Theory of Civilizational Development
  • (00:36:49) - Nationalism but not Ethnic Nationalism
  • (00:41:25) - Criticism of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
  • (00:48:45) - Influence of Augustine
  • (00:54:04) - Preview of Next Book
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