The article deals with the natural philosophical component of the novel “The Badgers” by L. Leonov. The aim of the study is to identify natural philosophical ideas in Leonov’s novel. The scientific novelty of the study lies in establishing the fact that the creation of an original natural philosophical system can be traced back to Leonov’s first novel “The Badgers”. In this system, there is a role not only for time and space, but also for human and the state. The results showed that time is anthropomorphized or depicted as a flywheel, but always subordinated to natural cycles. The space of the text is twofold and is limited by the binary opposition of culture and nature, which are opposed as artificial and natural. In his novel, Leonov depicts the state as something speculative, an unsustainable human superstructure, and evaluates it negatively. Nature, by contrast, is fundamental and represented as the Absolute. It is portrayed as governing everything and striving to erase the traces of human activity. The human being, on the one hand, is understood as a historical necessity, a master of nature and its guiding force. On the other hand, humanity is likened to a cog that can be adjusted or thrown away. The flawed nature of humanity and, importantly, the rather limited extent of its cognitive and self-cognition capabilities are emphasized.
Egor Igorevich Yagin (Thu,) studied this question.