The Fate of Man in the Modern World Enlarged Edition

by Nicolas Berdyaev (Author), Donald A. Lowrie (Translator)

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Scholar, mystic, Christian, Nicolas Berdyaev has profoundly influenced the religious thinking of our age. "He is one of the few who have found the Christian answer," writes Evgeny Lampert, "and yet do not cease to question with those whose lives are still torn asunder by disbelief, doubt and sufferings; one of the few who dare to be, as thinkers, Christians and, as Christians, thinkers."

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Paperback: 142 pages
Publisher: Semantron Press; Enlarged edition (June 26, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1597312630
ISBN-13: 978-1597312639
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
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The tragedy of history

By Ashtar Command on June 16, 2009

Format: Hardcover

Nikolai Berdyaev (here called Nicholas Berdyaev) was a Russian philosopher and Christian believer who was expelled by the Bolsheviks in 1922. He was onboard the famous "philosopher's ship" together with Sergei Bulgakov, Nikolai Lossky (Vladimir Lossky's father) and others. After his expulsion, Berdyaev lived in Germany and France, but seems to have fallen out with virtually all other émigré groups, perhaps because he was too "leftist" for most of them - and too religious for the leftist ones.

Berdyaev's philosophy is highly eclectic and difficult to fathom. It's a combination of Christianity, existentialism and Hegelianism. His main philosophical work is called "The meaning of history". This book, "The fate of man in the modern world" (first published in 1935) is both easier and more difficult. It's easier in the sense that Berdyaev summarizes his philosophical ideas and connects them to reflections concerning the world situation in 1935. And yet, it's more difficult, due to Berdyaev's style of writing. This man seems to change subject every other paragraph. After reading about half the book, my head was spinning!

In Hegelian fashion, Berdyaev believes that the meaning of history has been revealed in our own time. Or rather the cunning of history, the fact that history or "the World Spirit" uses man for its own ends. Contrary to Hegel, however, Berdyaev sees nothing positive about this. To him, history is a tragedy. Man is trapped in history, and cannot solve the constant conflict between personality and society, personality and culture, personality and mass, "quality" and "quantity". History is a tragedy, and all human endeavours inevitably fail. The modern period is especially gruesome in this regard.Read more ›