You can say the same about American pragmatism/instrumentalism (Peirce, Dewey, Quine). It is all from Kant and Bain; the novelty as to the rational component is minimal. Dewey was a Hegelian, James got it from the British empricists. Russian nihilism' novelty was its rational rejection of moral constraints. As such it was very influential. It was not developed into a coherent system, that's true, but a philosophy does not have to be a system. Pragmatism is not much of a coherent system either; as such, it has been ridiculed for 100+ years.

Ага. Ну, тут либо долго спорить по поводу Дьюи - чем и как он от гегельянцев отличался... Но дело трудное. Лучше я приму Ваше мние в счёт - хорошо, русский нигилизм записываем в кандидаты на "русскую национальную школу рационализма"