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Vladimir Soloviev and the spiritualization of matter / Oliver Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and historyPublisher: Boston, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : portraitContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781618110008
  • 1618110004
  • 9781618117007
  • 1618117009
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vladimir Soloviev and the spiritualization of matter.DDC classification:
  • 197 22
LOC classification:
  • B4268.M35 S65 2011eb
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Contents:
The first things. The early period, 1873-81 -- The material world -- The monad -- Theogony -- Cosmogony -- The fourth world -- Humanity. Anthropogeny and history -- The task and the kingdom of God -- Christ the God-man -- The body of Christ -- Death and flesh -- Prophecy. Soloviev as prophet, 1881-1897 -- Soloviev, authenticity and the antichrist -- The apocalyptic turn, 1897-1900 -- Prophecy and the threefold office -- Excursus. The primacy of the third: soul, feeling and reverence -- The last things. Love -- Beauty -- On spiritual-material unity.
Summary: While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev?s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. By investigating the development of a single theme in his work?his idea of the ?spiritualization of matter?, the ?task? of humanity?Smith constructs a rounded picture of Soloviev?s overall importance to an understanding of nineteenth-century thought, as well as to modern theology and philosophy. The picture that emerges is of a writer whose contribution to a Christian philosophy of matter resonates with many of the religious debates of modernity.
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While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev?s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. By investigating the development of a single theme in his work?his idea of the ?spiritualization of matter?, the ?task? of humanity?Smith constructs a rounded picture of Soloviev?s overall importance to an understanding of nineteenth-century thought, as well as to modern theology and philosophy. The picture that emerges is of a writer whose contribution to a Christian philosophy of matter resonates with many of the religious debates of modernity.

The first things. The early period, 1873-81 -- The material world -- The monad -- Theogony -- Cosmogony -- The fourth world -- Humanity. Anthropogeny and history -- The task and the kingdom of God -- Christ the God-man -- The body of Christ -- Death and flesh -- Prophecy. Soloviev as prophet, 1881-1897 -- Soloviev, authenticity and the antichrist -- The apocalyptic turn, 1897-1900 -- Prophecy and the threefold office -- Excursus. The primacy of the third: soul, feeling and reverence -- The last things. Love -- Beauty -- On spiritual-material unity.

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