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| − | '''Pavel Florensky''' (1882–1937) was a Russian theologian, priest, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and philosopher. | + | {{Infobox artist |
| + | |image = Nesterov_Mikhail_1917_Philosophers_Pavel_Florensky_and_Sergei_Bulgakov.jpg | ||
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| + | |caption = Mikhail Nesterov, ''Философы'' [Philosophers], 1917. Florensky and [[Sergei Bulgakov]], painting. | ||
| + | |birth_date = {{birth date|1882|1|22|mf=y}} | ||
| + | |birth_place = near Yevlakh, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire (today Azerbaijan) | ||
| + | |death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|12|8|1882|1|21|mf=y}} | ||
| + | |death_place = Leningrad, Soviet Union (today St. Petersburg) | ||
| + | }} | ||
| + | '''Pavel Florensky''' (Священник Павел Флоренский, 1882–1937) was a Russian theologian, priest, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and philosopher. | ||
He wrote on art, language, organic chemistry, mysticism, Kant, sculpture, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Aegean culture, arithmetic, idealism, iconography, electromagnetism, microscopy, carbolic acid, asbestos, Pythagorean numbers, Aleksandr Blok, ecclesiology, and a wide variety of other topics. After the revolution he was one of the few intellectuals with conservative views to be permitted to remain professionally active in the country, at least for a time. His training in science made him useful in the early years of the Soviet Union, when he applied his expertise as an electrical engineer to various public-works projects. In Soviet history, until recently the achievement for which Florensky was perhaps best remembered officially in his own country was his invention in 1927 of a noncoagulating machine oil. [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8h4nb55x&chunk.id=d0e2864&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2463&brand=ucpress] | He wrote on art, language, organic chemistry, mysticism, Kant, sculpture, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Aegean culture, arithmetic, idealism, iconography, electromagnetism, microscopy, carbolic acid, asbestos, Pythagorean numbers, Aleksandr Blok, ecclesiology, and a wide variety of other topics. After the revolution he was one of the few intellectuals with conservative views to be permitted to remain professionally active in the country, at least for a time. His training in science made him useful in the early years of the Soviet Union, when he applied his expertise as an electrical engineer to various public-works projects. In Soviet history, until recently the achievement for which Florensky was perhaps best remembered officially in his own country was his invention in 1927 of a noncoagulating machine oil. [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8h4nb55x&chunk.id=d0e2864&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2463&brand=ucpress] | ||
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
| − | ; By Florensky | + | ; By Florensky (in Russian) |
| − | * ''[http:// | + | * ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=E7859A1A568944B25DD52DBFC5C70AD6&open=0 Столп и утверждение истины]'', Moscow: Pravda, 1990. |
| + | * ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=5F9446137889B3D856B11813C6D87AE7&open=0 У водоразделов мысли Т.2]'', Moscow: Pravda, 1990. | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Mnimosti_v_geometrii.pdf|Мнимости в геометрии]]'' [Mimosti v geometrii], Moscow: Лазурь, 1991, 96 pp. First published in 1922. Reprinted with an introductory essay by Michael Hagemeister, Munich: Otto Sagner, 1985. | ||
| + | * ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=D8494F2CA7DEF0AB90275337FE1A6A3C&open=0 Иконостас. Избранные труды по искусству]'', Moscow: Russkaja kniga, 1993. | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_1.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 1]], Moscow: Мысль, 1994, 797 pp. | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_2.pdf|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 2]], Moscow: Мысль, 1996, 877 pp. | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_3-1.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 3(1)]], Moscow: Мысль, 2000, 621 pp. | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_3-2.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 3(1)]], Moscow: Мысль, 2000, 623 pp. | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_4.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 4]], Moscow: Мысль, 1998, 795 pp. | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Istorija_i_filosofija_iskusstva.pdf|История и философия искусства]]'' [Istorija i filosofija iskusstva], Moscow: Мысль, 2000. | ||
| + | * ''[http://store.free-college.org/noleech1.php?hidden=r:/698000/fcb3f3981f30265ee62325742890a25a&hidden0=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB+%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B0++2004.djvu Философия культа]'', Moscow: Мысль, 2004, 685 pp. | ||
| + | * [http://libgen.org/get?md5=9817D2A13C5884C79EEFE84D2145F764&open=0 Письма семье из лагерей и тюрем 1933 -1937 гг], Сатисъ, 2004. | ||
| + | * [http://libgen.org/search.php?req=%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9&open=0&view=simple&column=def More]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ; By Florensky (in English) | ||
* ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=7D76DC4895FB4FA037A6C6AB2B4EF588&open=0 Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art], ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002. [http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/reaktion/display.asp?K=9781861891303] | * ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=7D76DC4895FB4FA037A6C6AB2B4EF588&open=0 Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art], ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002. [http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/reaktion/display.asp?K=9781861891303] | ||
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; On Florensky | ; On Florensky | ||
| + | * Leonid Sabaneeff, [[Media:Sabaneeff_Leonid_1961_Pavel_Florensky-Priest_Scientist_and_Mystic.pdf|Pavel Florensky-Priest, Scientist, and Mystic]], ''Russian Review'' 20:4 (October 1961), pp 312-325. | ||
| + | * Kirill Sokolov, Avril Pyman, [[Media:Sokolov_Kirill_Pyman_Avrill_1989_Father_Pavel_Florensky_and_Vladimir_Favorsky.pdf|Father Pavel Florensky and Vladimir Favorsky: Mutual Insights into the Perception of Space]], ''Leonardo'' 22: 2 (1989), pp 237-244. | ||
* Steven Cassedy, [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8h4nb55x&chunk.id=d0e2864&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2463&brand=ucpress "Pavel Florensky"], ''Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory'', University of California Press, 1990, pp 114-120. | * Steven Cassedy, [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8h4nb55x&chunk.id=d0e2864&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2463&brand=ucpress "Pavel Florensky"], ''Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory'', University of California Press, 1990, pp 114-120. | ||
| + | * K.G. Isupova (ed.), ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=DE50899481C322018309EA7B736D8431&open=0 P.A. Florensky: Pro et contra]'', St. Petersburg: Русский Христианский Гуманитарный Институт, 1996, 752 pp. (in Russian) | ||
| + | * Stephen C. Hutchings, [[Media:Hutchings_Stephen_C_1999_Making_Sense_of_the_Sensual_in_Pavel_Florenskiis_Aesthetics.pdf|Making Sense of the Sensual in Pavel Florenskii's Aesthetics: The Dialectics of Finite Being]], ''Slavic Review'' 58:1 (Spring 1999), pp 96-116. | ||
| + | * Milan Zust, [http://libgen.org/get?md5=40D608D9BBEAADDC47DC5B42E3B312B6&open=0 À la recherche de la vérité vivante. L’expérience religieuse de Pavel A. Florenskij (1882-1937)], Rome, Lipa, 2002, 394 pp. (in French). [http://monderusse.revues.org/4189 Review]. | ||
* Ross Wolfe, [http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/the-aesthetics-of-russian-orthodox-church-architecture-a-philosophical-historical-and-critical-investigation/ The aesthetics of Russian Orthodox Church architecture: A philosophical, historical, and critical investigation], ''The Charnel-House'' blog, 30 August 2010. | * Ross Wolfe, [http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/the-aesthetics-of-russian-orthodox-church-architecture-a-philosophical-historical-and-critical-investigation/ The aesthetics of Russian Orthodox Church architecture: A philosophical, historical, and critical investigation], ''The Charnel-House'' blog, 30 August 2010. | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 09:59, 5 January 2014
 Mikhail Nesterov, Философы [Philosophers], 1917. Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov, painting. | |
| Born |
January 22, 1882 near Yevlakh, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire (today Azerbaijan) |
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| Died |
December 8, 1937 (aged 55) Leningrad, Soviet Union (today St. Petersburg) |
Pavel Florensky (Священник Павел Флоренский, 1882–1937) was a Russian theologian, priest, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and philosopher.
He wrote on art, language, organic chemistry, mysticism, Kant, sculpture, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Aegean culture, arithmetic, idealism, iconography, electromagnetism, microscopy, carbolic acid, asbestos, Pythagorean numbers, Aleksandr Blok, ecclesiology, and a wide variety of other topics. After the revolution he was one of the few intellectuals with conservative views to be permitted to remain professionally active in the country, at least for a time. His training in science made him useful in the early years of the Soviet Union, when he applied his expertise as an electrical engineer to various public-works projects. In Soviet history, until recently the achievement for which Florensky was perhaps best remembered officially in his own country was his invention in 1927 of a noncoagulating machine oil. [1]
Literature
- By Florensky (in Russian)
- Столп и утверждение истины, Moscow: Pravda, 1990.
- У водоразделов мысли Т.2, Moscow: Pravda, 1990.
- Мнимости в геометрии [Mimosti v geometrii], Moscow: Лазурь, 1991, 96 pp. First published in 1922. Reprinted with an introductory essay by Michael Hagemeister, Munich: Otto Sagner, 1985.
- Иконостас. Избранные труды по искусству, Moscow: Russkaja kniga, 1993.
- Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 1, Moscow: Мысль, 1994, 797 pp.
- Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 2, Moscow: Мысль, 1996, 877 pp.
- Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 3(1), Moscow: Мысль, 2000, 621 pp.
- Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 3(1), Moscow: Мысль, 2000, 623 pp.
- Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 4, Moscow: Мысль, 1998, 795 pp.
- История и философия искусства [Istorija i filosofija iskusstva], Moscow: Мысль, 2000.
- Философия культа, Moscow: Мысль, 2004, 685 pp.
- Письма семье из лагерей и тюрем 1933 -1937 гг, Сатисъ, 2004.
- More.
- By Florensky (in English)
- Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002. [2]
- On Florensky
- Leonid Sabaneeff, Pavel Florensky-Priest, Scientist, and Mystic, Russian Review 20:4 (October 1961), pp 312-325.
- Kirill Sokolov, Avril Pyman, Father Pavel Florensky and Vladimir Favorsky: Mutual Insights into the Perception of Space, Leonardo 22: 2 (1989), pp 237-244.
- Steven Cassedy, "Pavel Florensky", Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory, University of California Press, 1990, pp 114-120.
- K.G. Isupova (ed.), P.A. Florensky: Pro et contra, St. Petersburg: Русский Христианский Гуманитарный Институт, 1996, 752 pp. (in Russian)
- Stephen C. Hutchings, Making Sense of the Sensual in Pavel Florenskii's Aesthetics: The Dialectics of Finite Being, Slavic Review 58:1 (Spring 1999), pp 96-116.
- Milan Zust, À la recherche de la vérité vivante. L’expérience religieuse de Pavel A. Florenskij (1882-1937), Rome, Lipa, 2002, 394 pp. (in French). Review.
- Ross Wolfe, The aesthetics of Russian Orthodox Church architecture: A philosophical, historical, and critical investigation, The Charnel-House blog, 30 August 2010.
