Difference between revisions of "Pavel Florensky"

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* ''The Pillar and Ground of the Truth'', Princeton University Press, 1997. [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i6223.pdf Introduction].
 
* ''[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]
 
* ''[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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* [[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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* ''[http://archive.org/details/Pavel_Florensky-Iconostasul Iconostasul]'', trans. Boris Buzilă, Fundatia Anastasia, 1994.
* [[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. Elena Dulgheru, Bucharest: Anastasia, 1998. [http://archive.org/details/Pavel_Florenski_-_Dogmatica_si_Dogmatism]
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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] [http://www.moldovacrestina.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/St%C3%A2lpul-%C5%9Fi-Temelia-Adev%C4%83rul-Pavel-Florensky4.pdf]
  
 
===On Florensky===
 
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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)
 
* 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)
 
* 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].
 
* 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].
* 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://vox-nova.com/2010/04/08/vox-nova-at-the-library-pavel-florensky-a-quiet-genius/ Review].
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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://vox-nova.com/2010/04/08/vox-nova-at-the-library-pavel-florensky-a-quiet-genius/ Review]. [http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/pavel-florensky-a-quiet-genius-9781441187000/]
  
 
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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. (in Italian)
 
* 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. (in Italian)
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
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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]
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.

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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)

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]

Literature

By Florensky

in Russian
in English
in Romanian

On Florensky

Books
Papers, Book chapters, Articles, Blog posts
Theses
  • 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. [8]

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