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Dostoevsky: An Interpretation
Hardcover
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ISBN13: 9781597311960
Publisher: Sophia Perennis Et Universalis
Published: Jun 7 2023
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheistic and positivistic worldview and the beginning of a new era of the spirit. His philosophy goes beyond mere rational conceptualization and tries to attain authentic life itself: the profound layers of existence in contact with the divine world. He directed all his efforts-philosophical as well as in his personal and public life-at replacing the kingdom of this world with the kingdom of God. According to him, we can all attempt this by tapping the divine creative powers that constitute our true nature. Our mission is to be collaborators with God in His continuing creation of the world.
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world. Thus does Nikolai Berdyaev assess Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), the great Russian novelist, religious thinker, and prophet. Berdyaev's aim in this book is to examine Dostoevsky's spiritual side, to explore in all its depth the way Dostoevsky perceived the universe, and to reconstruct out of these elements his entire worldview. Dostoevsky shows us new worlds, worlds in motion, by which alone human destinies can be made intelligible. These worlds and these destinies, however, can only be grasped by a spiritual analysis, and it is just such an analysis that Berdyaev provides in this book.
Nikolai Berdyaev's writings are always insightful, penetrating, passionate, committed-expressions of the whole person. They are as intensely alive now as when they were first written.-Richard Pevear, translator of War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov
Nikolai Berdyaev's writings retain their freshness as vehicles for thinking not just about the future of Russia, but about the spiritual challenges facing the modern world.-Paul Vallier, author of Modern Russian Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov
Nikolai Berdyaev is one of the few who have found the Christian answer, and yet do not cease to question with those whose lives are still torn asunder by disbelief, doubt, and sufferings; one of the few who dare to be, as thinkers, Christians and, as Christians, thinkers.-Evgeny Lampert, author of The Apocalypse of History
Boris Jakim has translated and edited many books in the field of Russian religious thought. His translations include S. L. Frank's The Unknowable, Pavel Florensky's The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Vladimir Solovyov's Lectures on Divine Humanity, and Sergius Bulgakov's The Bride of the Lamb.
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