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Book SynopsisPavel Florensky was, at one and the same time, a supremely gifted philosopher, mathematician, physicist, engineer and theologian. He was also a poet and wrote studies of history, language and art. His book The Pillar and the Ground of Truth is widely seen as a masterpiece of Russian Orthodox theology. This title offers an account of his life.
Trade Review"Avril Pyman brings to the biography of Pavel Florensky the experience of a lifetime's research on Russian culture of the early twentieth century. No one could be better equipped to write this first biography in English of a man whom the epithet 'polymath' fits like no other... Avril Pyman's book brings to the attention of English-language readers for the first time a neglected cultural figure of immense importance." Professor Emeritus John Elsworth, University of Manchester, UK, President of the International Council for Central and East European Studies"
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Foreword by Geoffrey Hosking; Preface; Chapter I: Childhood; Chapter II: School; Chapter III: From the Physico-Mathematical Faculty at Moscow University to the New Religious Consciousness; Chapter IV: The Melting-Pot. Autumn 1904 - Autumn 1908; Chapter V: The Quiet Mutiny; Chapter VI: The Four-leafed Clover; Chapter VII: Catastrophe. 1917-1926; Chapter VIII: Diversification - Art, Music and Science 1919-1933; Chapter IX: Permafrost; Glossary of Names; Chronology of Florensky's Life; Index.
