TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubin,Dominic
TI  - The life and thought of Lev Karsavin: "strength made perfect in weakness-- " 
T2  - On the boundary of two worlds
SN  - 9401209146
AV  - B4249 
U1  - 100 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Karsavin, L. P.
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Russia
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Authors, Russian
KW  - Historians
KW  - Philosophes
KW  - Russie
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Écrivains russes
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literary
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Essays
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Diagrams; Preface; ONE: The Making of a Metaphysical Historian; 1. Prelude: Who was Lev Karsavin?; 2. Early life (1882-1901); 3. Scholarly beginnings and first crisis (1902-1915); 4. The Foundations of Medieval Religiosity (1915-1916); 5. Karsavin, historical Christianity and FMR; TWO: A Theology Unfolds; 1. The Petrograd years (1917-1922): ""I have singed my wings ... "" ; 2. The roots of all-unity (1): Catholicism and Revelation of the Blessed Angela ; 3. The roots of all-unity (2): Nicholas of Cusa; 4. The early essays (1919-1922); 5. Conclusion; THREE: The Flames of Love and Knowledge1. Noctes Petropolitanae: love and temptation; 2. Expulsion; 3. On First Principles (1921-1925); 4. Conclusion; FOUR: The Symphonic Face of Lev Karsavin: From History to Politics; 1. Bread, butter and-metaphysics in exile (1924-1926); 2. The Philosophy of History (1921-1923); 3. Karsavin and the Eurasian movement (1926-1930); 4. Conclusion; FIVE: Personhood as the True Countenance of Being; 1. The move to Lithuania; 2. On Personhood (1928); 3. The correspondence with Wetter (1940); SIX: "Strength made perfect in weakness."; 1. From occupation to deportation (1940-1949)2. Karsavin's Lithuanian and camp works; 3. Coda: Karsavin's years in Abez and Anatoly Vaneev (1950-1952); SEVEN: Epilogue: Karsavin Today; 1. Prelude; 2. Eastern and Western theology yesterday and today; 3. Conclusion; Bibliography; 1. Works by Lev Karsavin; 2. Works by Other Authors; Abbreviations for Selected Works by Karsavin; Appendix: Karsavin's Poem on Death (1931); Index
N2  - ""At last, Russia has begun to speak in a truly original voice."" So said Anatoly Vaneev, a Soviet dissident who became Karsavin's disciple in the Siberian gulag where the philosopher spent his last two years. The book traces the unusual trajectory of this inspiring voice: Karsavin started his career as Russia's brightest historian of Catholic mysticism; however, his radical methods - which were far ahead of their time - shocked his conservative colleagues. The shock continued when Karsavin turned to philosophy, writing flamboyant and dense essays in a polyphonic style, which both Marxists and
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