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The study is divided into two parts. In the first part the position of Russia 'between the East and the West' is outlined in the light of Russian as well as German philosophical thinking accenting their intersections. Central here is the question of the 'mysteriousness' of the Russian culture and of the so-called Russian soul, which the authoress approaches from the position of 'Western Europe'. She...