Pavel Florensky : a quiet genius : the tragic and extraordinary life of Russia's unknown da Vinci / Avril Pyman ; foreword by Geoffrey Hosking.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pyman, Avril, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Florenskiĭ, P. A. (Pavel Aleksandrovich), 1882-1937.

Florenskiĭ, P. A.

Intellectuals--Soviet Union--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Soviet Union--Intellectual life.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Continuum, c1997, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius is the first biography in English of an extraordinary polymath whose genius was stifled and finally extinguished by the Soviet Union. He has been compared to Pascal, Teilhard de Chardin, even da Vinci. Florensky was, at one and the same time, a supremely gifted philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, engineer and theologian. He was also a poet and wrote studies of history, language and art. Although he taught philosophy for most of his working life, his interests were wide-ranging and profound and included the study of time and space, theoretical and ap

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Dates and Transliteration; Foreword; Preface; 1 Childhood; 2 School; 3 From the Physico-Mathematical Faculty at Moscow University to the New Religious Consciousness; 4 The Melting Pot: Autumn 1904 - Autumn 1908; 5 The Quiet Mutiny; 6 The Four-leafed Clover; 7 Catastrophe 1917-1926; 8 Diversification - Art, Music and Science 1919-1933; 9 Permafrost; Chronology; Glossary of Names; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-87343-1

9786612873430

1-4411-2098-X

OCLC:

676695841