Самопознание. Русская идея

by Nikolai Berdyaev, Николай Бердяев

В этот сборник вошли два ключевых произведения величайшего представителя русской религиозной философии Николая Бердяева — первого в нашей стране представителя школы религиозного экзистен-циализма.
"Самопознание" — работа, в которой автобиографические черты переплелись с философскими — представляет собой уникальную попыт-ку переосмыслить жизнь и духовное становление человеческой личности через события времени, переживаемого великим философом как вхожде-ние его личного, микрокосмического начала в макрокосмическое. "Происшедшее с миром есть происшедшее со мной" — таковы главные слова этой работы. "Русская идея" — произведение более спорное с идеологической точки зрения, но еще более интересное со стороны философской. В нем Бердяев переосмысливает идею русской православной религиозности как единственной экзистенциальной силы русского духа — силы идеалистической, иррациональной, однако способной повлиять и на рациональное восприятие нашими соотечественниками их места в окружающем мире…

Genres: Philosophy

608 pages, Hardcover

Published March 5, 2011

About the author

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born at Kyiv in 1874 of an aristocratic family. He commenced his education in a military school and subsequently entered the University of Kiev. There he accepted Marxism and took part in political agitation, for which he was expelled. At twenty-five he was exiled from Kiev to the north of Russia and narrowly escaped a second period of exile shortly before the Revolution. Before this, however, he had broken with Marxism in company with Sergius Bulgakov, and in 1909 he contributed to a symposium which reaffirmed the values of Orthodox Christianity. After the October Revolution he was appointed by the Bolshevists to a chair of philosophy in the University of Moscow, but soon fell into disfavour for his independent political opinions. He was twice imprisoned and in 1922 was expelled from the country. He settled first in Berlin, where he opened a Russian Academy of Philosophy and Religion. Thence he moved to Clamart near Paris, where he lectured in a similar institution. In 1939 he was invited to lecture at the Sorbonne. He lived through the German occupation unmolested. After the liberation, he announced his adhesion to the Soviet government, but later an article by him published in a Paris (Russian) newspaper, criticising the return to a policy of repression, was tantamount to a withdrawal of this. He died at Clamart March 24, 1948.