Immanentism in Russian culture

In article, the author considers the phenomenon of immanentism in Russian philosophy and literature. According to the author, immanentism means the denial of the transcendental, which finds an expression in the formula “God is dead”. Unlike Western culture, for Russian culture the idea of the death of God didn’t become fundamental, however, in part because of the noticeable role of immanentism. From this point of view the author considers the works of Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Chekhov, Dimitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius. According to the author, the immanentism in Russian culture significantly differs from the immanentism in Western culture. As the basis for the atempts to rethink Christianity here lies not the desire to bring Christianity into accord with modern consciousness and the concrete needs of society; nor the desire to ennoble the person, having turned God into the intermediate stage of his formation; nor the aspiration to remove God to a safe distance, but jealousy for God. Te Russian consciousness in the tendencies of immanentism, however, paradoxically departed in the opposite direction of the approach of the living God