Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon

ISBN-13: 9780367777838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 100 str.

Clemena Antonova

Opis

This book considers a movement within Russian religious philosophy known as full unity (vseedinstvo), with a focus on one of its main representatives, Pavel Florensky (1882-1937).

Spis treści

Introduction: Florensky’s project of religious modernity 

1 The unity of man and God before the icon: the icon as "energetic symbol" 

2 The unity of the icon in space: on a stage in man’s road to deification 

3 The unity of faith and reason: on an unusual application of Non-Euclidean geometry 

4 The organic unity of the icon and the Church ritual as a synthesis of the arts 

Conclusion and implications

O autorze

Clemena Antonova is research director of the "Eurasia in Global Dialogue" programme, Institute for the Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria, and author of Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God.