The study attempts to theorize philosophical influence as a research focus on the dependence and inter-dependence between ideas and concepts by the examples of Schopenhauer, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Cioran. As a methodological tool, philosophical influence helps to figure out the particularity of the philosopher’s contribution to the tradition.

Daria Lebedeva holds a Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Her main fields of research interest are history of philosophy, religion, and culture.

Contents: Philosophical influence – Nihilism – Pessimism – Will – Thing-in-itself – Clinamen – Progress – Human’s condition – Aphorism – Critique of morality – Morals of slaves – Critique of Christianity – Tragic hero – Commandment – «Love your neighbor» – Spirituality – Insignifcance of human life – Superman – Misanthropy – Music – Suffering.