Self-knowledge
Subtitle: an essay in autobiography
By: Nicolas Berdyaev.
Edition: Reprint ed.
Publisher: Semantron Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Rafael
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781597312585
Subjects: Berdi︠a︡ev, Nikolaĭ, -- 1874-1948; Philosophers -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Work titles: Samopoznanie.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: London : Geoffrey Bles, 1950.
Table of contents: title: Origins. environment. first influences. the Russian gentry; title: Solitude. anguish. freedom. revolt. pity. doubts and wrestlings of the spirit. reflections on eros; title: First conversion. search for the meaning of life; title: The domain of philosophical knowledge. philosophical sources. existentialism and romanticism; title: Conversion to socialism. the domain of revolution. Marxism and idealism; title: The russian cultural renascence of the early twentieth century. encounters; title: The movement towards christianity. the drama of religion; title: The domain of creativity. the meaning of the creative act. the creative act as ecstasy; title: The russian revolution and the domain of communism; title: Russian and the west; title: My final philosophical outlook. confession of faith. the domain of eschatology. time and eternity; title: Concerning self-knowledge. the limits of self-knowledge. auto-biographical conclusion. years of ordeal.