Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948)
Autore di The Destiny of Man
Sull'Autore
The Russian Orthodox religious philosopher Nikolai A. Berdyaev was born into an aristocratic family in Kiev, Ukraine. At the turn of the century, the Czarist government exiled him for his Marxist views. After the revolution he founded the Free Academy of Spiritual Culture and was given the chair of mostra altro philosophy at the University of Moscow. He was imprisoned for his defense of religion and was driven into exile, first to Berlin (1922), then to Paris (1934). In Berlin, Berdyaev founded the Academy of the Philosophy of Religion, which he later moved to Clamart near Paris. Although Berdyaev's early interest was in Marxism, his view insisted that only transcendental critical idealism can solve the problem of truth. Berdyaev later became interested in mystical and religious ideas, and developed a process cosmology and theology. Berdyaev's last testament The Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar was found after his death and put into publishable form by a group of his friends. Berdyaev was strongly committed to freedom and individualism, which caused him great difficulty with ecclesiastical and political authorities. Berdyaev died in 1948. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Nikolai Berdyaev
Nicolas Berdiaev. Essai d'autobiographie spirituelle : Traduit du russe par E. Belenson (1992) 4 copie
El cristianismo y la lucha de clases dignidad del cristianismo e indignidad de los cristianos 3 copie
The meaning of history 2 copie
El sentido de la historia 2 copie
Il senso della creazione 1 copia
Slavery and freedom / 1 copia
Mens en machine 1 copia
Spirit and reality / 1 copia
Homjakov Dostojevski Leontjev 1 copia
The meaning of history / 1 copia
Spirit and reality 1 copia
Izvori i smisao ruskog komunizma 1 copia
Судьба России 1 copia
Смысл творчества 1 copia
The meaning of the creative act 1 copia
Il problema del comunismo 1 copia
Autobiografia spirituale 1 copia
Slavery and freedom 1 copia
Nicholas Berdyaev 1 copia
Solitude and society 1 copia
The Spiritual Crisis of the Intelligentsia: Articles on Societal and Religious Psychology (1907-1909) (2015) 1 copia
O hodnotě křesťanství 1 copia
О рабстве и свободе человека 1 copia
Autobiografia filozoficzna 1 copia
Światopogląd Dostojewskiego 1 copia
Ruh Sürgünü 1 copia
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- Nome canonico
- Berdjajev, Nikolaj
- Nome legale
- Бердяев, Николай Александрович
Berdjaev, Nikolaj Aleksandrovič
Berdjajev, Nikolaj Aleksandrovitsj - Data di nascita
- 1874-03-18
- Data di morte
- 1948-03-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Russia
- Luogo di nascita
- Lipky, Kiev, Russian Empire
- Luogo di morte
- Clamart, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Kiev, Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Vologda, Russia
Heidelberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Paris, France - Istruzione
- Kiev University
University of Heidelberg - Attività lavorative
- religious philosopher
Professor - Relazioni
- Kudasheva, Princess (mother)
- Organizzazioni
- Novyi Put'
University of Moscow - Breve biografia
- Berdyaev was born in Kiev into an aristocratic military family. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely. He read Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Kant when only fourteen years old and excelled at languages. Berdyaev decided on an intellectual career and entered the Kiev University in 1894. This was a time of revolutionary fervor among the students and the intelligentsia. Berdyaev became a Marxist and in 1898 was arrested in a student demonstration and expelled from the University. Later his involvement in illegal activities led to three years of internal exile in central Russia—a mild sentence compared to that faced by many other revolutionaries. In 1904 Berdyaev married Lydia Trusheff and the couple moved to Saint Petersburg, the Russian capital and center of intellectual and revolutionary activity. Berdyaev participated fully in intellectual and spiritual debate, eventually departing from radical Marxism to focus his attention on philosophy and spirituality. Berdyaev and Trusheff remained deeply committed to each other until the latter's death in 1945. A fiery 1913 article criticising the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church caused him to be charged with the crime of blasphemy, the punishment for which was exile to Siberia for life. The World War and the Bolshevik Revolution prevented the matter coming to trial. However, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, Berdyaev fell out with the Bolshevik regime, because of its totalitarianism and the domination of the state over the freedom of the individual. Nonetheless, he was permitted for the time being to continue to lecture and write. His disaffection culminated in 1919 Berdyaev with the foundation of his own private academy, the "Free Academy of Spiritual Culture". This was primarily a forum for him to lecture on the hot topics of the day, trying to present them from a Christian point of view. Berdyaev also presented his opinions in public lectures, and every Tuesday he hosted a meeting at his home. However, Christianity was illegal at the time, since the official policy of the Communist party required atheism.[1]
In 1920 Berdiaev was made professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow, although he had no academic qualifications. In the same year, he was accused of participating in a conspiracy against the government; he was arrested and jailed. It seems that the feared head of the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky, came in person to interrogate him, and that he (Berdyaev) gave the man a solid dressing-down on the problems with Bolshevism. Berdyaev's prior record of revolutionary activity seems to have saved him from prolonged detention, as his friend Lev Kamenev was present at the interrogation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in his book The Gulag Archipelago, recounts the incident as follows: [Berdyaev] was arrested twice; he was taken in 1922 for a midnight interrogation with Dzerjinsky; Kamenev was also there. [...] But Berdyaev did not humiliate himself, he did not beg, he firmly professed the moral and religious principles by virtue of which he did not adhere to the party in power; and not only did they judge that there was no point in putting him on trial, but he was freed. Now there is a man who had a "point of view!" Berdyaev was eventually expelled from Russia in September 1922. He was among a carefully selected group of some 160 prominent writers, scholars, and intellectuals whose ideas the Bolshevik government found objectionable, who were sent into exile on the so-called "philosophers' ship". Overall, they were supporters neither of the Czarist regime nor of the Bolsheviks, preferring less autocratic forms of government. They included those who argued for personal liberty, spiritual development, Christian ethics, and a pathway informed by reason and guided by faith. At first Berdyaev and other émigrés went to Berlin, where Berdyaev founded an academy of philosophy and religion. But economic and political conditions in Weimar Germany caused him and his wife to move to Paris in 1923. He transferred his academy there, and taught, lectured, and wrote, working for an exchange of ideas with the French intellectual community. During the German occupation of France, Berdyaev continued to write books that were published after the war—some of them after his death. In the years that he spent in France, Berdyaev wrote fifteen books, including most of his most important works. He died at his writing desk in his home in Clamart, near Paris, in March 1948. (Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev)
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> Un bon livre pour la compréhension du christianisme orthodoxe dans sa version éclairée. En théologie orthodoxe, l'auteur a fortement contribué à la liberté d'esprit de "l'Ecole de Paris" qui a réunit les meilleurs théologiens russes en France après la Révolution d'octobre. Un homme libre.
—Danieljean (Babelio)
> RÉSUMÉ. — On pourrait qualifier cet extraordinaire ouvrage posthume de véritable testament spirituel. Le grand écrivain russe après avoir parlé de ses sources, de ses parents, de son enfance, retrace sa première conversion, sa première recherche du sens de la vie.
Il fait revivre pour nous le monde révolutionnaire russe du début du siècle et la renaissance culturelle qu'il a suscitée. Puis c'est la révolution de 1917 et le communisme vu, si l'on peut dire de l'intérieur. Enfin les années d'exil, en Allemagne puis à Paris où Berdiaev trace des portraits saisissants de ses rencontres.
En même temps ou plutôt parallèlement à l'évolution des événements, Berdiaev nous fait assister à sa propre conquête spirituelle, depuis la tentative du christianisme, l'expérience de l'extase créatrice jusqu'à la philosophie définitive et l'ultime connaissance de soi. Cette autobiographie est l'écrit le plus significatif de Berdiaev.
Le critique Kenneth Walker du Sunday Times le place sur le même plan que les confessions de Saint Augustin et de Rousseau.… (altro)