Beyond Modernity: Russian Religious Philosophy and Post-Secularism

by Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen (Editor), Teresa Obolevitch (Editor), Pawel Rojek (Editor)

Overview

Post-secularism is the fundamental evidence of the end of modernity. Modernity, as sleeping reason in Francisco Goya's painting, realizes that, although it thought that it was awake, it was producing monsters. We try to analyze post-secular philosophy from the point of view of Russian religious thought. We believe that such philosophers as Vladimir Soloviev, Pavel Florensky, Sergey Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Georges Florovsky, and Semen Frank may be helpful for understanding and overcoming post-secular order. Their unique views on the relations between religion and philosophy, science, and social life are apparently missing in the current Western debates. It seems to us that Russian religious philosophy becomes surprisingly up-to-date and attractive in the contemporary world. We hope that the present volume will be a significant step forward in the inclusion of the heritage of Russian religious philosophy in contemporary debates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498239783
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	10/11/2016
Series:	Ex Oriente Lux , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	284
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Artur Mrowczyński-Van Allen is Professor at the International Center for the Study of the Christian Orient and Instituto de Filosofia "Edith Stein," Granada, Spain. He is the author of Between the Icon and the Idol: The Human Person and the Modern State in Russian Literature and Thought (Cascade, 2013).
 
Teresa Obolevitch is Professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. Recently she published in French La philosophie religieuse russe (Cerf, 2014).
 
Paweł Rojek is Assistant Lecturer at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland.
Artur Mrowczynski Van-Allen (Poland, 1968) is director of the Slavic Department at the International Center for the Study of the Christian Orient (ICSCO) in Granada, Spain. He is currently Collaborator Professor at the Instituto de Filosofia "Edith Stein" and the Instituto de Teologia "Lumen Gentium," where he teaches Philosophy of History and Political Philosophy. He also serves as Research Professor of the Faculty of Filosophy at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in KraKow, Poland and as Consulter of the Episcopal Interreligious and Interconfessional Relations Commission of the Spanish Episcopal Conference in Madrid, Spain. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Centro Studi Vita e Destina, Vasilij Grossman (Turin, Italy), and of the Scientific Council of the Krakow Meetings on Russian Philosophy at the Pontifical University of John Paul II. His essays, articles, and conferences have been published in Spanish, Polish, Russian, English, and Italian. He is author of Between the Icon and the Idol: Man and State in Russian Thought and Literature, (Cascade, 2013); and co-editor of La Idea Rusa. Entre el anticristo y la Iglesia. Una antologia introductoria (2009); Apology of Culture: Religion and Culture in Russian Thought (Pickwick, 2015); and Beyond Modernity: Russian Religious Philosophy and Post-Secularism  (Pickwick, 2016).

Teresa Obolevitch is Professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. Recently she published in French La philosophie religieuse russe (2014).