The Russian cosmists : the esoteric futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and his followers / George M. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, George M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Russian--History.

Philosophy, Russian.

Cosmology--Philosophy.

Cosmology.

Philosophers--Russia.

Philosophers.

Philosophers--Soviet Union.

Fedorov, Nikolai Fedorovich, 1828-1903.

Fedorov, Nikolai Fedorovich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ideas of the Cosmists have in recent decades been rediscovered and embraced by many Russian intellectuals. Here Young offers a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the lives and ideas of the Russian Cosmists.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. The Spiritual Geography of Russian Cosmism; General Characteristics; Recent Definitions of Cosmism; 2. Forerunners of Russian Cosmism; Vasily Nazarovich Karazin (1773-1842); Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev (1749-1802); Two Poets: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765) and Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816); Prince Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky (1803-1869); Aleksander Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903); 3. The Russian Philosophical Context; Philosophy as Passion; The Destiny of Russia; Thought as a Call for Action; The Totalitarian Cast of Mind

4. The Religious and Spiritual ContextThe Kingdom of God on Earth; Hesychasm; Two Great Russian Saints; The Third Rome; Pre-Christian Antecedents; 5. The Russian Esoteric Context; Early Searches for "Deep Wisdom"; Popular Magic; Higher Magic in the Time of Peter the Great; Esotericism after Peter the Great; Theosophy and Anthroposophy; 6. Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov (1829-1903), the Philosopher of the Common Task; The One Idea; The Unacknowledged Prince; The Village Teacher; First Disciple; Dostoevsky and Tolstoy; The Moscow Librarian; Last Years: Askhabad; The Only Portrait

7. The "Common Task"The Esoteric Dimension of the "Common Task"; Fedorov's Legacy; 8. The Religious Cosmists; Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov (1853-1900); Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov (1871-1944); Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky (1882-1937); Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948); 9. The Scientific Cosmists; Konstantin Edouardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935); Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945); Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky (1897-1964); Vasily Feofilovich Kuprevich (1897-1969); 10. Promethean Theurgy; Life Creation; Cultural Immortalism; God Building; Reaiming the Arrows of Eros

Technological UtopianismOccultism; 11. Fedorov's Twentieth-Century Followers; Nikolai Pavlovich Peterson (1844-1919) and Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov (1852-1917); Svyatogor and the Biocosmists; New Wine and the Universal Task; Alexander Konstantinovich Gorsky (1886-1943) and Nikolai Alexandrovich Setnitsky (1888-1937); Valerian Nikolaevich Muravyov (1885-1932); Vasily Nikolaevich Chekrygin (1897-1922); 12. Cosmism and Its Offshoots Today; The N. F. Fedorov Museum-Library; The Tsiolkovsky Museum and Chizhevsky Center; ISRICA-Institute for Scientific Research in Cosmic Anthropoecology

Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912-1992) and Neo-EurasianismThe Hyperboreans; Scientific Immortalism; Conclusions about the Russian Cosmists; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 13, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-997439-X

9786613889287

1-283-57683-X

0-19-989295-4

OCLC:

809032382