Meaning of History

Name: Meaning of History
ISBN: 9781412804974

بواسطة Nikolai Berdyaev

4/5

(65 الأصوات)

نشرت لأول مرة: 2005
الناشرون: Taylor & Francis Group
لغة: English

Now with a new introduction by Professor of Russian Maria Nemcova Banerjee, The Meaning Of History is a philosophical treatise by intellectual Nikolai Berdyaev, witness to two world wars, who survived arrest for political suspicion first by Czarist and then by Bolshevik police, who died in exile in France in 1948 doggedly pursuing his studies and analysis to the end. Observing the philosophy of history as a field that formed the foundations of Russian national consciousness, Berdyaev discusses celestial and metaphysical as well as mundane history, the role of Judaism and Jews in Russian history ("Semitism has been grafted on to the Christian spirit and is indispensable to its destiny.

This is a typical Berdyaev hot little number if one can be so bold - a rave about history that manages to turn the subject inside out, so that what most people would ordinary consider to be "history" isn't, and that what "really" is history is what most people would scoff at if it was suggested. A fun read of a book by a great, inspired and sometimes too effusive mind.