The Philosophical Bases of the Pedagogical Views of V. F. Odoyevsky

The paper unveils the interrelationship existing between V. F. Odoyevsky's pedagogy and his philosophical ideas. The philosophical and pedagogical legacy of the thinker is of a considerable interest as one of the most developed in the history of Russian thought in the first half of the 19th century in the models for the construction of a program of education in the wake of the romantic 'organicistic' education. The author demonstrates that the pedagogical dominant in Odoyevsky's philosophical worldview forms very early; the analysis of the development of his philosophical views since the 1820s reveals an intrinsic link between the pedagogical orientation of his mindset and the philosophical reflection on cultural, linguistic and knowledge issues. This link is also maintained in the works of the 1830s and 1840s, when Odoyevsky's observations in the field of theory and practice of education become isolated in a disciplinary sense from the philosophical corpus of his ideas.