{"product_id":"pavel-florensky-a-quiet-genius-9781441187000","title":"Pavel Florensky A Quiet Genius","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePavel 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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.","brand":"Continuum Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769652904279,"sku":"9781441187000","price":53.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781441187000.jpg?v=1758722065","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pavel-florensky-a-quiet-genius-9781441187000","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}