Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia's Unknown da Vinci

ISBN-13: 9781441187000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 328 str.

Avril Pyman

Opis

This is a biography in English of an extraordinary polymath whose genius was stifled and finally extinguished by the Soviet Union. Today Pavel Florensky is often referred to as the Russian da Vinci.

Spis treści

List 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