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[[Image:Pavel_Florensky,_1926.jpg|thumb|350px|With daughter, 1926.]]
 
'''Pavel Florensky''' (Священник Павел Флоренский, 1882–1937) was a Russian theologian, priest, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and philosopher.  
 
'''Pavel Florensky''' (Священник Павел Флоренский, 1882–1937) was a Russian theologian, priest, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and philosopher.  
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He wrote on art, language, organic chemistry, mysticism, Kant, sculpture, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Aegean culture, arithmetic, idealism, iconography, electromagnetism, microscopy, carbolic acid, asbestos, Pythagorean numbers, Aleksandr Blok, ecclesiology, and a wide variety of other topics. After the revolution he was one of the few intellectuals with conservative views to be permitted to remain professionally active in the country, at least for a time. His training in science made him useful in the early years of the Soviet Union, when he applied his expertise as an electrical engineer to various public-works projects. In Soviet history, until recently the achievement for which Florensky was perhaps best remembered officially in his own country was his invention in 1927 of a noncoagulating machine oil. [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8h4nb55x&chunk.id=d0e2864&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2463&brand=ucpress]
 
He wrote on art, language, organic chemistry, mysticism, Kant, sculpture, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Aegean culture, arithmetic, idealism, iconography, electromagnetism, microscopy, carbolic acid, asbestos, Pythagorean numbers, Aleksandr Blok, ecclesiology, and a wide variety of other topics. After the revolution he was one of the few intellectuals with conservative views to be permitted to remain professionally active in the country, at least for a time. His training in science made him useful in the early years of the Soviet Union, when he applied his expertise as an electrical engineer to various public-works projects. In Soviet history, until recently the achievement for which Florensky was perhaps best remembered officially in his own country was his invention in 1927 of a noncoagulating machine oil. [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8h4nb55x&chunk.id=d0e2864&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2463&brand=ucpress]
  
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==Literature==
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==Works==
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; By Florensky (in Russian)
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===Books===
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* ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=E7859A1A568944B25DD52DBFC5C70AD6&open=0 Столп и утверждение истины]'', Moscow: Pravda, 1990.
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[[Image:Florensky_Pavel_Mnimosti_v_geometrii.jpg|thumb|350px|''Mnimosti v geometri'', 1922, [[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Mnimosti_v_geometrii.pdf|PDF]]; 1985, [http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00047832_00001.html JPGs].]]
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* ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=5F9446137889B3D856B11813C6D87AE7&open=0 У водоразделов мысли Т.2]'', Moscow: Pravda, 1990.
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; in Russian
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* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Mnimosti_v_geometrii.pdf|Мнимости в геометрии]]'' [Mimosti v geometrii], Moscow: Лазурь, 1991, 96 pp. First published in 1922. Reprinted with an introductory essay by Michael Hagemeister, Munich: Otto Sagner, 1985.
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* ''[[Media:Florensky_PA_Stolp_i_utverzhdenie_istiny_Т1_1.pdf|Stolp i utverzhdenie istiny, T1 (1)]]'' [Столп и утверждение истины], Moscow: Pravda, 1990; ''[[Media:Florensky_PA_Stolp_i_utverzhdenie_istiny_Т1_2.djvu|T1 (2)]]''.
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* ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=D8494F2CA7DEF0AB90275337FE1A6A3C&open=0 Иконостас. Избранные труды по искусству]'', Moscow: Russkaja kniga, 1993.
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* ''U vodorazdelov mysli Т.1. Stati po inkusstvu'', ed. N.A. Struve, Paris: YMCA Press, 1985.
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5F9446137889B3D856B11813C6D87AE7&open=0 U vodorazdelov mysli Т.2]'' [У водоразделов мысли], Moscow: Pravda, 1990.
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* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Mnimosti_v_geometrii.pdf|Mnimosti v geometrii]]'' [Мнимости в геометрии], Moscow: Pomore [Поморье], 1922; [http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00047832_00001.html new ed.], intro. Michael Hagemeister, Munich: Otto Sagner, 1985; Moscow: Lazyr [Лазурь], 1991, 96 pp. "Poiasnenie k oblozhke" (pp 58-65) was reprinted in Florensky, ''U vodorazdelov mysli Т.1. Stati po inkusstvu'', ed. N.A. Struve, Paris: YMCA Press, 1985, pp 369-379. [http://www.opentextnn.ru/man/?id=3812]
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D8494F2CA7DEF0AB90275337FE1A6A3C&open=0 Ikonostas. Izbrannye trudy po iskusstvu]'' [Иконостас. Избранные труды по искусству], Moscow: Russkaja kniga, 1993.
 
* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_1.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 1]], Moscow: Мысль, 1994, 797 pp.
 
* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_1.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 1]], Moscow: Мысль, 1994, 797 pp.
 
* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_2.pdf|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 2]], Moscow: Мысль, 1996, 877 pp.
 
* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_2.pdf|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 2]], Moscow: Мысль, 1996, 877 pp.
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* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_3-2.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 3(1)]], Moscow: Мысль, 2000, 623 pp.
 
* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_3-2.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 3(1)]], Moscow: Мысль, 2000, 623 pp.
 
* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_4.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 4]], Moscow: Мысль, 1998, 795 pp.
 
* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Сочинения_в_4-х_томах_том_4.djvu|Сочинения в 4-х томах: том 4]], Moscow: Мысль, 1998, 795 pp.
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* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Istorija_i_filosofija_iskusstva.pdf|История и философия искусства]]'' [Istorija i filosofija iskusstva], Moscow: Мысль, 2000.  
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* ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Istorija_i_filosofija_iskusstva.pdf|Istoriya i filosofiya iskusstva]]'' [История и философия искусства], Moscow: Mysl [Мысль], 2000.  
 
* ''[http://store.free-college.org/noleech1.php?hidden=r:/698000/fcb3f3981f30265ee62325742890a25a&hidden0=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB+%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B0++2004.djvu Философия культа]'', Moscow: Мысль, 2004, 685 pp.
 
* ''[http://store.free-college.org/noleech1.php?hidden=r:/698000/fcb3f3981f30265ee62325742890a25a&hidden0=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB+%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B0++2004.djvu Философия культа]'', Moscow: Мысль, 2004, 685 pp.
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* [http://libgen.org/get?md5=9817D2A13C5884C79EEFE84D2145F764&open=0 Письма семье из лагерей и тюрем 1933 -1937 гг], Сатисъ, 2004.  
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* [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9817D2A13C5884C79EEFE84D2145F764&open=0 Письма семье из лагерей и тюрем 1933 -1937 гг], Сатисъ, 2004.
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; in Italian
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* ''La colonna e il fondamento della verità'', Rusconi, 1974, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=88B170F505C9FDBBDADFB7E70C61DF0C PDF].
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* ''La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983.
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* ''Stratificazioni. Scritti sull’arte e la tecnica'', Diabasis, 2008.
  
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; By Florensky (in English)
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; in German
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* ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=7D76DC4895FB4FA037A6C6AB2B4EF588&open=0 Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art], ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002. [http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/reaktion/display.asp?K=9781861891303]
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* ''Die Ikonostase: Urbild und Grenzerlebnis im revolutionären Rußland'', trans. and intro Ulrich Werner, Stuttgart: Urachhaus, 1988, [http://bibliothek.orthpedia.de/pdf/buecher/DieIkonostase-Florenskij_ocr_Teil1.pdf PDF], [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/593402719ff37c4e17cb5748 ARG]. Translation of the 1922 version.
  
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; By Florensky (in Romanian)
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; in Romanian
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* [[Media:Florenski_Pavel_Dogmatica_si_Dogmatism_1998.pdf|''Dogmatică şi Dogmatism'']], trans. Elena Dulgheru, Bucureşti: Anastasia, 1998 ([http://documents.scribd.com/docs/1mee28wtou2edb01e590.pdf excerpts]).
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* ''[https://archive.org/details/Pavel_Florensky-Iconostasul Iconostasul]'', trans. Boris Buzilă, Fundatia Anastasia, 1994.
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* [[Media:Florenski_Pavel_Stalpul_si_Temelia_Adevarului.pdf|''Stâlpul şi Temelia Adevărului. Încercare de teodicee ortodoxă în douăsprezece scrisori'']], trans. Emil Iordache, Iulian Friptu and Dimitrie Popescu, Iaşi: Polirom, 1999 [http://www.moldovacrestina.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/St%C3%A2lpul-%C5%9Fi-Temelia-Adev%C4%83rul-Pavel-Florensky4.pdf].
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* [[Media:Florenski_Pavel_Dogmatica_si_Dogmatism_1998.pdf|''Dogmatică şi Dogmatism'']], trans. and notes Elena Dulgheru, Bucharest: Anastasia, 1998, [http://archive.org/details/Pavel_Florenski_-_Dogmatica_si_Dogmatism IA].
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; On Florensky
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* [[Media:Florenski_Pavel_Stalpul_si_Temelia_Adevarului.pdf|''Stâlpul şi Temelia Adevărului. Încercare de teodicee ortodoxă în douăsprezece scrisori'']], trans. Emil Iordache, Iulian Friptu and Dimitrie Popescu, Iaşi: Polirom, 1999, [http://archive.org/details/Pavel_Florenski_-_Stalpul_si_Temelia_Adevarului IA],  [http://www.moldovacrestina.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/St%C3%A2lpul-%C5%9Fi-Temelia-Adev%C4%83rul-Pavel-Florensky4.pdf PDF].
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* Leonid Sabaneeff, [[Media:Sabaneeff_Leonid_1961_Pavel_Florensky-Priest_Scientist_and_Mystic.pdf|Pavel Florensky-Priest, Scientist, and Mystic]], ''Russian Review'' 20:4 (October 1961), pp 312-325.
 
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* Kirill Sokolov, Avril Pyman, [[Media:Sokolov_Kirill_Pyman_Avrill_1989_Father_Pavel_Florensky_and_Vladimir_Favorsky.pdf|Father Pavel Florensky and Vladimir Favorsky: Mutual Insights into the Perception of Space]], ''Leonardo'' 22: 2 (1989), pp 237-244.
 
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* Steven Cassedy, [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8h4nb55x&chunk.id=d0e2864&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2463&brand=ucpress "Pavel Florensky"], ''Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory'', University of California Press, 1990, pp 114-120.
 
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* K.G. Isupova (ed.), ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=DE50899481C322018309EA7B736D8431&open=0 P.A. Florensky: Pro et contra]'', St. Petersburg: Русский Христианский Гуманитарный Институт, 1996, 752 pp. (in Russian)
 
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* Stephen C. Hutchings, [[Media:Hutchings_Stephen_C_1999_Making_Sense_of_the_Sensual_in_Pavel_Florenskiis_Aesthetics.pdf|"Making Sense of the Sensual in Pavel Florenskii's Aesthetics: The Dialectics of Finite Being"]], ''Slavic Review'' 58:1 (Spring 1999), pp 96-116.
 
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* Milan Zust, ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=40D608D9BBEAADDC47DC5B42E3B312B6&open=0 À la recherche de la vérité vivante. L’expérience religieuse de Pavel A. Florenskij (1882-1937)]'', Rome, Lipa, 2002, 394 pp. (in French). [http://monderusse.revues.org/4189 Review].
 
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* Antonio Maccioni, [http://www.esamizdat.it/rivista/2007/1-2/pdf/rass_maccioni_eS_2007_(V)_1-2.pdf "Pavel Aleksandrovič Florenskij. Note in margine all'ultima ricezione italiana"], eSamizdat, 2007, V (1-2), pp. 471-478 (in Italian).
 
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* Ross Wolfe, [http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/the-aesthetics-of-russian-orthodox-church-architecture-a-philosophical-historical-and-critical-investigation/ "The aesthetics of Russian Orthodox Church architecture: A philosophical, historical, and critical investigation"], ''The Charnel-House'' blog, 30 August 2010.
 
  
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==External links==
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; in English
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* ''The Pillar and Ground of the Truth'', Princeton University Press, 1997. [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i6223.pdf Introduction].
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=7D76DC4895FB4FA037A6C6AB2B4EF588&open=0 Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art]'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, trans. Wendy Salmond, Reaktion Books, 2002, [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=cb79865e56fbdc85f204bb32c1ac075f-0 ARG]. [http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/reaktion/display.asp?K=9781861891303]
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===Selected articles and lectures===
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* "Poiasnenie k oblozhke", in ''[[Media:Florensky_Pavel_Mnimosti_v_geometrii.pdf|Mnimosti v geometrii]]'' [Мнимости в геометрии], Moscow: Pomore [Поморье], 1922, pp 58-65; Munich: Otto Sagner, 1985; repr. in Florensky, ''U vodorazdelov mysli Т.1. Stati po inkusstvu'', ed. N.A. Struve, Paris: YMCA Press, 1985, pp 369-379. {{ru}}
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** "Spiegazione della copertina", in Florenskij, ''La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983, pp 136-143. {{it}}
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** [[Media:Sokolov_Kirill_Pyman_Avrill_1989_Father_Pavel_Florensky_and_Vladimir_Favorsky.pdf|"Explanation of the Cover"]], trans. Avril Pyman, ''Leonardo'' 22:2 (1989), pp 239-244. {{en}}
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** [[Media:Florensky_Pavel_1922_2002_Explanation_of_the_Cover.pdf|"Explanation of the Cover"]], trans. Wendy Salmond, in ''Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002, pp 183-196, n297-298. {{en}}
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* "Obratnaia perspektiva", ''Trudy po znakovym sistemam'' 3 (1967), pp 381-416; repr. in Florensky, ''U vodorazdelov mysli Т.1. Stati po inkusstvu'', ed. N.A. Struve, Paris: YMCA Press, 1985, pp 117-187. {{ru}}. Delivered as a lecture, "Reverse Perspective" was not published at the time, even though Florensky himself prepared the text, dictating it, in part, to Aleksandra Rozanova, daughter of his friend, the writer Vasilii Rozanov. The printed proofs are preserved in Manuscript Section, RGL, f. 218, op. 1304, d.12. {{ru}}
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** "La prospettiva rovesciata", in Florenskij, ''La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983, pp 73-135. {{it}}
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** "Die umgekehrte Perspektive", in Sikojev, 1989, pp. 7-79. {{de}}
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** "La perspective inversee", in Lhoest, 1992, pp. 67-120. {{fr}}
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** "Gyakuenkinh", in Kuwano, 1998, pp. 11-111. {{jp}}
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** [[Media:Florensky_Pavel_1967_2002_Reverse_Perspective.pdf|"Reverse Perspective"]], trans. Wendy Salmond, in ''Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002, pp 197-272, n299-306. {{en}}
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* "Ikonostas", ''Bogoslovskie trudy'', 9 (1972), pp 88-148. {{ru}}
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===Bibliography===
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* Ierodiakon Andronik (Trubacev), "Osnovnye certy licnosti, zizn' i tvorcestvo svjascennika Pavla Florenskogo", ''Zhurnal Moskovskoj Patriarchii'' 4 (1982), p 13. {{ru}}
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==Literature==
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===Books===
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* Robert Slesinski, ''Pavel Florensky: A Metaphysics of Love'', New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1984. {{en}}
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* K.G. Isupova (ed.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=DE50899481C322018309EA7B736D8431&open=0 P.A. Florensky: Pro et contra]'', St. Petersburg: Русский Христианский Гуманитарный Институт, 1996, 752 pp. {{ru}}
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* Milan Zust, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=40D608D9BBEAADDC47DC5B42E3B312B6&open=0 À la recherche de la vérité vivante. L’expérience religieuse de Pavel A. Florenskij (1882-1937)]'', Rome, Lipa, 2002, 394 pp. Review: [http://monderusse.revues.org/4189 Lanne] (CMR 2004). {{fr}}
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* Avril Pyman, ''Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia s Unknown Da Vinci'', New York: Continuum, 2010, 304 pp. [http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/pavel-florensky-a-quiet-genius-9781441187000/]. Reviews: [http://vox-nova.com/2010/04/08/vox-nova-at-the-library-pavel-florensky-a-quiet-genius/ Karlson] (VN 2010), [http://www.academia.edu/8704177/ Michelson] (CSP 2011). {{en}}
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** ''Pavel Florensky, un geniu tăcut'', trans. Geoffrey Hosking, Bucharest: Renasterea, 2014, 492 pp. {{ro}}
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===Book chapters, papers, articles, blog posts===
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* Leonid Sabaneeff, [[Media:Sabaneeff_Leonid_1961_Pavel_Florensky-Priest_Scientist_and_Mystic.pdf|"Pavel Florensky-Priest, Scientist, and Mystic"]], ''Russian Review'' 20:4 (October 1961), pp 312-325. {{en}}
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* Kirill Sokolov, Avril Pyman, [[Media:Sokolov_Kirill_Pyman_Avrill_1989_Father_Pavel_Florensky_and_Vladimir_Favorsky.pdf|"Father Pavel Florensky and Vladimir Favorsky: Mutual Insights into the Perception of Space"]], ''Leonardo'' 22:2 (1989), pp 237-244. {{en}}
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* Steven Cassedy, [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8h4nb55x&chunk.id=d0e2864&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2463&brand=ucpress "Pavel Florensky"], in ''Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory'', University of California Press, 1990, pp 114-120. {{en}}
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* Nicoletta Misler, [http://books.google.com/books?id=JT2sAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA118 "Toward an Exact Aesthetics: Pavel Florensky and the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences"], in ''Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-garde and Cultural Experiment'', eds. John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp 118-132. {{en}}
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* Stephen C. Hutchings, [[Media:Hutchings_Stephen_C_1999_Making_Sense_of_the_Sensual_in_Pavel_Florenskiis_Aesthetics.pdf|"Making Sense of the Sensual in Pavel Florenskii's Aesthetics: The Dialectics of Finite Being"]], ''Slavic Review'' 58:1 (Spring 1999), pp 96-116. {{en}}
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* Antonio Maccioni, [http://www.esamizdat.it/rivista/2007/1-2/pdf/rass_maccioni_eS_2007_(V)_1-2.pdf "Pavel Aleksandrovič Florenskij. Note in margine all'ultima ricezione italiana"], eSamizdat V:1-2 (2007), pp 471-478. {{it}}
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* Vasile Cristescu, [http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/17/41-50Cristescu.pdf "The Reverse Perspective in the Orthodox Iconography According to P. Florenski: A Dogmatic Perspective"], ''European Journal of Science and Theology'', 5:1 (March 2009), pp 41-50. {{en}}
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* Steven Cassedy, "Pavel Florenskii's Trinitarian Humanism", in ''A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930'', 2010, pp 190-204. [http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511712227&cid=CBO9780511712227A020] {{en}}
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* Ross Wolfe, [http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/the-aesthetics-of-russian-orthodox-church-architecture-a-philosophical-historical-and-critical-investigation/ "The aesthetics of Russian Orthodox Church architecture: A philosophical, historical, and critical investigation"], ''The Charnel-House'' blog, 30 August 2010. {{en}}
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* Clemena Antonova, [http://museumofrussianicons.org/research/files/2513/6440/6570/AntonovaVisualityFINAL.pdf "Visuality Among Cubism, Iconography, and Theosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of Iconic Space"], ''Museum of Russian Icons'', February 2012. {{en}}
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===Theses===
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* Elizabeth Cooper English, ''"Arkhitektura i mnimosti": The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical -philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition'', University of Pennsylvania, 2000. PhD dissertation. [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9989589] {{en}}
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==Links==
 
* [http://philologos.narod.ru/florensky/floren-main.htm Selected Florensky's works online and bibliography]
 
* [http://philologos.narod.ru/florensky/floren-main.htm Selected Florensky's works online and bibliography]
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* [http://www.runivers.ru/philosophy/lib/authors/author103700/ Florensky's biographies from varius Russian encyclopedias]
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* [http://www.runivers.ru/philosophy/lib/authors/author103700/ Florensky's biographies from various Russian encyclopedias]
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* http://www.eparh33.ru/news/Svyashchennik_Pavel_Florenskiy___russkiy_Leonardo
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* http://www.hrono.info/biograf/bio_f/florenski_pa.php
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* http://www.runivers.ru/lib/authors/author103700/
 
* [http://www.kontextverlag.de/florenskij.biographie.html Florensky's biography and texts on him in German]
 
* [http://www.kontextverlag.de/florenskij.biographie.html Florensky's biography and texts on him in German]
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* [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Флоренский,_Павел_Александрович Florensky at Russian Wikipedia]
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* [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Флоренский,_Павел_Александрович Florensky on Russian Wikipedia]
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Mikhail Nesterov, Философы [Philosophers], 1917. Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov, painting.
Born January 22, 1882(1882-01-22)
near Yevlakh, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire (today Azerbaijan)
Died December 8, 1937(1937-12-08) (aged 55)
Leningrad, Soviet Union (today St. Petersburg)
With daughter, 1926.

Pavel Florensky (Священник Павел Флоренский, 1882–1937) was a Russian theologian, priest, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and philosopher.

He wrote on art, language, organic chemistry, mysticism, Kant, sculpture, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Aegean culture, arithmetic, idealism, iconography, electromagnetism, microscopy, carbolic acid, asbestos, Pythagorean numbers, Aleksandr Blok, ecclesiology, and a wide variety of other topics. After the revolution he was one of the few intellectuals with conservative views to be permitted to remain professionally active in the country, at least for a time. His training in science made him useful in the early years of the Soviet Union, when he applied his expertise as an electrical engineer to various public-works projects. In Soviet history, until recently the achievement for which Florensky was perhaps best remembered officially in his own country was his invention in 1927 of a noncoagulating machine oil. [1]

Works[edit]

Books[edit]

Mnimosti v geometri, 1922, PDF; 1985, JPGs.
in Russian
in Italian
  • La colonna e il fondamento della verità, Rusconi, 1974, PDF.
  • La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983.
  • Stratificazioni. Scritti sull’arte e la tecnica, Diabasis, 2008.
in German
  • Die Ikonostase: Urbild und Grenzerlebnis im revolutionären Rußland, trans. and intro Ulrich Werner, Stuttgart: Urachhaus, 1988, PDF, ARG. Translation of the 1922 version.
in Romanian
in English

Selected articles and lectures[edit]

  • "Poiasnenie k oblozhke", in Mnimosti v geometrii [Мнимости в геометрии], Moscow: Pomore [Поморье], 1922, pp 58-65; Munich: Otto Sagner, 1985; repr. in Florensky, U vodorazdelov mysli Т.1. Stati po inkusstvu, ed. N.A. Struve, Paris: YMCA Press, 1985, pp 369-379. (Russian)
    • "Spiegazione della copertina", in Florenskij, La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983, pp 136-143. (Italian)
    • "Explanation of the Cover", trans. Avril Pyman, Leonardo 22:2 (1989), pp 239-244. (English)
    • "Explanation of the Cover", trans. Wendy Salmond, in Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002, pp 183-196, n297-298. (English)
  • "Obratnaia perspektiva", Trudy po znakovym sistemam 3 (1967), pp 381-416; repr. in Florensky, U vodorazdelov mysli Т.1. Stati po inkusstvu, ed. N.A. Struve, Paris: YMCA Press, 1985, pp 117-187. (Russian). Delivered as a lecture, "Reverse Perspective" was not published at the time, even though Florensky himself prepared the text, dictating it, in part, to Aleksandra Rozanova, daughter of his friend, the writer Vasilii Rozanov. The printed proofs are preserved in Manuscript Section, RGL, f. 218, op. 1304, d.12. (Russian)
    • "La prospettiva rovesciata", in Florenskij, La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983, pp 73-135. (Italian)
    • "Die umgekehrte Perspektive", in Sikojev, 1989, pp. 7-79. (German)
    • "La perspective inversee", in Lhoest, 1992, pp. 67-120. (French)
    • "Gyakuenkinh", in Kuwano, 1998, pp. 11-111. (Japanese)
    • "Reverse Perspective", trans. Wendy Salmond, in Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002, pp 197-272, n299-306. (English)
  • "Ikonostas", Bogoslovskie trudy, 9 (1972), pp 88-148. (Russian)

Bibliography[edit]

  • Ierodiakon Andronik (Trubacev), "Osnovnye certy licnosti, zizn' i tvorcestvo svjascennika Pavla Florenskogo", Zhurnal Moskovskoj Patriarchii 4 (1982), p 13. (Russian)

Literature[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Robert Slesinski, Pavel Florensky: A Metaphysics of Love, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1984. (English)
  • K.G. Isupova (ed.), P.A. Florensky: Pro et contra, St. Petersburg: Русский Христианский Гуманитарный Институт, 1996, 752 pp. (Russian)
  • Milan Zust, À la recherche de la vérité vivante. L’expérience religieuse de Pavel A. Florenskij (1882-1937), Rome, Lipa, 2002, 394 pp. Review: Lanne (CMR 2004). (French)
  • Avril Pyman, Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia s Unknown Da Vinci, New York: Continuum, 2010, 304 pp. [4]. Reviews: Karlson (VN 2010), Michelson (CSP 2011). (English)
    • Pavel Florensky, un geniu tăcut, trans. Geoffrey Hosking, Bucharest: Renasterea, 2014, 492 pp. (Romanian)

Book chapters, papers, articles, blog posts[edit]

Theses[edit]

  • Elizabeth Cooper English, "Arkhitektura i mnimosti": The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical -philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition, University of Pennsylvania, 2000. PhD dissertation. [6] (English)

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