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9781412804974

The Meaning of History

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    9781412804974

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    1412804973

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  • Copyright: 2005-01-10
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Berdyaev considered the philosophy of history as a field that laid the foundations of the Russian national consciousness. Its disputes were centered on distinctions between slavophiles and Westerners, East and West. The Meaning of History was an early effort, following World War I, that attempted to revive this perspective. With the removal of Communism as a ruling system in Russia, that nation returned to an elaboration of a religious philosophy of history as the specific mission of Russian thought. This volume thus has contemporary significance. Its sense of the apocalypse, which distinguishes Russian from Western thought, gives the book its specifically religious character.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION vii
FOREWORD xxv
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE xxvii
I. ON THE ESSENCE OF THE HISTORICAL: THE MEANING OF TRADITION 1(20)
II. ON THE NATURE OF THE HISTORICAL: THE METAPHYSICAL AND THE HISTORICAL 21(23)
III. OF CELESTIAL HISTORY: GOD AND MAN 44(19)
IV. OF CELESTIAL HISTORY: TIME AND ETERNITY 63(23)
V. THE DESTINY OF THE JEWS 86(22)
VI. CHRISTIANITY AND HISTORY 108(20)
VII. THE RENAISSANCE AND HUMANISM 128(22)
VIII. THE END OF THE RENAISSANCE AND THE CRISIS OF HUMANISM: THE ADVENT OF THE MACHINE 150(19)
IX. THE END OF THE RENAISSANCE AND THE CRISIS OF HUMANISM: THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN IMAGE 169(17)
X. THE DOCTRINE OF PROGRESS AND THE GOAL OF HISTORY 186(21)
EPILOGUE: THE WILL TO LIFE AND THE WILL TO CULTURE 207

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