meonizm

…He started out as a poet of the so-called bourgeois poetic movement in the mid-1870s, but in the mid-1880s he showed a tendency towards mysticism, publishing works such as Under the Light of Conscience (1890) in which he saw Nietzsche as a liberator from civic duties, and was seen as a pioneer of the Russian decadent movement along with Merezhkovsky and others. However, his philosophical theory of meonism, which was based on the human desire for things that do not exist, was criticized by both materialists and idealists. In 1905, he was arrested as an editor of the Bolshevik newspaper New Life, and later went into exile, spending the rest of his life abroad, including in France. …

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…1870年代中ごろ，いわゆる市民詩派の詩人として出発したが，80年代中ごろに神秘主義的傾向を示し，ニーチェを市民的義務からの解放者とみる著書《良心の光の下に》(1890)などを発表，メレシコフスキーなどとともにロシア･デカダン派の先駆けと目された。しかし，存在しないものへの人間の希求を骨子として展開した哲学的理論〈メオニズムmeonizm〉は，唯物論者と観念論者の双方から批判を受けた。1905年ボリシェビキ系の新聞《新生活》の編集者として逮捕され，後に亡命，一生をフランスなど国外で送った。…

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