The Eternal in Russian Philosophy by Boris P. Vysheslavtsev, Penelope V. Burt

ISBN: 9780802849526

Eerdmans Publishing Company | November 2001

Paperback | 224 pages

Much of Russian philosophy has been unavailable to or unexplored by Western thinkers, which is unfortunate because the uniqueness of the Russian vision has much to contribute to Western dialogue. The Eternal in Russian Philosophy helps fill this intellectual lacuna by offering a genuinely philosophical introduction to the themes of Russian religious thought — freedom, the nature and centrality of the person, the nature of grace and law, the role of the irrational in human nature and its sublimation, and conscious credos versus unconscious cultural assumptions. Boris Vysheslavtsev, one of a constellation of Russian thinkers whose voices were lost amid Soviet censorship, reveals how themes from Russian religious philosophy intertwine with existential and theological concerns and offers both a book about Russian philosophy and an excellent exemplar of it.