scholarly journals Chapter Four. Vasily Rozanov (and Pavel Florensky): The sacred and the secrets of the Jews

2019 ◽  
pp. 227-334
Keyword(s):  
Pavel Florensky

Chelovek.RU/Человек.RU

Chelovek RU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 18-53
Author(s):  
Sergei Avanesov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Great Distance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Pavel Florensky ◽  
The Moment

Abstract. The article analyzes the autobiography of the famous Russian philosopher, theologian and scientist Pavel Florensky, as well as those of his texts that retain traces of memories. According to Florensky, the personal biography is based on family history and continues in children. He addresses his own biography to his children. Memories based on diary entries are designed as a memory diary, that is, as material for future memories. The past becomes actual in autobiography, turns into a kind of present. The past, from the point of view of its realization in the present, gains meaning and significance. The au-thor is active in relation to his own past, transforming it from a collection of disparate facts into a se-quence of events. A person can only see the true meaning of such events from a great distance. Therefore, the philosopher remembers not so much the circumstances of his life as the inner impressions of the en-counter with reality. The most powerful personality-forming experiences are associated with childhood. Even the moment of birth can decisively affect the character of a person and the range of his interests. The foundations of a person's worldview are laid precisely in childhood. Florensky not only writes mem-oirs about himself, but also tries to analyze the problems of time and memory. A person is immersed in time, but he is able to move into the past through memory and into the future through faith. An autobi-ography can never be written to the end because its author lives on. However, reaching the depths of life, he is able to build his path in such a way that at the end of this path he will unite with the fullness of time, with eternity.

‘Synergy’, ‘energy’ and ‘symbol’ in Pavel Florensky and Palamism

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Dmitry Biryukov
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pavel Florensky

AbstractThis article is a study of Pavel Florensky's philosophy of symbol in the context of his discovery of Palamism in the 1910s, when Florensky started to speak of symbol using Palamite language. It proposes a fundamental difference between Florensky's and Palamas’ teachings on symbol: Palamas views a natural symbol as the energy of an essence, while for Florensky symbol is the essence itself, the energy of which synergises with the energies of other essence. In this context the prehistory of the concept of synergy in Florensky is studied, leading to the identification of a further difference in the ontologies of Florensky and Palamas: while Florensky's ‘essence-energy’ has the property of necessary correlation with the ‘other’, following the tendencies of the philosophy of that epoch, in Palamas ‘energy’ does not presuppose any necessary correlation with the ‘other’. The author connects this difference in ontologies between the two thinkers with their respective teachings on symbol.

scholarly journals Notebooks of Roman Feierstein as a mirror of his personality

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Vadim Markovich Rozin
Keyword(s):  
Two Cultures ◽  
Pavel Florensky

This article analyzes notebooks of the artist, architect and designer Roman Feierstein. They reflect certain aspect of over twenty yearlong artworks of the master, who immigrated to Germany with his family. The research presents separate sketches and fragments of the diary thoughts. The author analyzes the personality of Roman Feierstein, and advances a hypothesis that he lived in between two cultures (German and Russian), having created his own world. Being an artist, designer and immigrant, the endowed this world with aesthetics, constructive and reflective features, which is evident in his notebooks. As a result of this study, the author came to better understanding of the transformation of Roman Feierstein’s personality; was able to explain certain peculiarities of his works in immigration, advance a hypothesis on the character of drawings and texts from the notebooks; as well as use some results of reconstruction of personality of Pavel Florensky for the analysis of evolution of personality of the master.

scholarly journals Pavel Florensky’s Concept of Organ Projection and Herbert McLuhan’s Idea of Extensions of Man: The Subject in the Era of Incarnated Utopias

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Никита Вадимович Сороколетов
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pavel Florensky ◽  
Perceptual Abilities

В данной статье анализируются, в первую очередь, утопические проекты П. Флоренского и К. Малевича, которые сравниваются с идеей расширяющегося тела Г. Маклюэна. Значительное внимание уделяется концепции органопроекции, предложенной П. Флоренским, и концепции развоплощения, описанной К. Малевичем. В статье также предпринята попытка выяснить, каким образом эти утопии влияют на перцептивные способности субъекта. На основе проведённого анализа автор приходит к выводу о том, что если в случае с фашизмом технология приводит к эстетизации политики, в случае с коммунизмом - к политизации искусства, то в современную эпоху наблюдается нечто третье, а именно - эстетизация субъекта. Таким образом, автор статьи, сравнивая утопические проекты П. Флоренского, К. Малевича и Г. Маклюэна, прослеживает связь между ними и приходит к выводу о том, что не все утопии ХХ века преодолены. The article analyses utopian projects of Fr. Pavel Florensky and K. Malevich, who are compared with Herbert Marshall McLuhan’s idea of expanding body. A special attention is paid to the concepts of organic projection developed by Florensky and to the concepts of excarnation presented by K. Malevich. The article seeks to find out how these utopians influence on the perceptual abilities of subject. The author suggests that if in the case of fascism technology leads to the aestheticization of politics and in the case of communism to the politicization of art, then in the modern times the aestheticization of subject is observed. Comparing the utopian projects of Florensky, Malevich and McLuhan, the author concludes that not all utopias of the 20th century have so far been overcome.

scholarly journals Petrović’s Phenomenology and Florensky’s Platonism

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš Milovanović
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Method ◽  
Positioning System ◽  
Pavel Florensky ◽  
Methodological Advance ◽  
Modern Mathematics ◽  
The Continuum

Mihailo Petrović Alas’s mathematical phenomenology has been studied in the philosophy of the magical name, which is a mythological approach to Platonism originating with Pavel Florensky. The inadequacy of its interpretations lies in the impossibility of being expressed through the language of modern mathematics which is based on the concept of sets. In this respect, Petrović’s phenomenology requires a methodological advance, which this paper discusses. The emphasis is on the spectral method that merges phenomena into a continuum, thus establishing a connection to the Pythagorean myth. The use of kynematical concepts in the description of spectral rhythm suggests that the digit positions of the positioning system denote time, which makes the continuum a developed magical name.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document