1st Edition
Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon
By Clemena Antonova
Copyright 2020
110 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
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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). Often referred to as "the Russian Leonardo," Florensky was an important figure of the Russian religious renaissance around the beginning of the twentieth century. This book shows that his philosophy,... Read more
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
Biography
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.
