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[ Passionate one-sideness and dispassion of spirit]
St. Petersburg: Universitetskaia Kniga, 1998 617 p Serie: Rossiiskie Propilei Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5791400349 Language: Russian
This book by a well-known philosopher, historian of culture, and columnist G. Pomerants (1918-2013) includes several works of the 1980-1990s, plus several incursions into the past. Part I "Free essays" are the author`s reflections on various episodes of his own life, and on events and mutations in the world at large. Part II "Literature and art" includes articles on Dostoevskii, O. Mandelstam, B. Pasternak, Daniil Andreev, David Samoilov, B. Chichibanin, V. Kaz`min, and Andrei Tarkovskii. Part III "Faces of culture" discusses religious and philosophical systems of the world: "Four symbols of eternity and the modern crisis", "European freedom and Russian liberty", "Destructive tendencies in Russian culture", "Meditations on history", etc. Selected bibliography, name index.
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