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===Selected articles and lectures===
 
===Selected articles and lectures===
 
* "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}}
 
* "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}}
** "Spiegazione della copertina", in Florenskij, ''La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983, pp 136-143. (in Italian)
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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}}
 
** [[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}}
 
** [[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}}
 
** [[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}}
 
** [[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}}
 
* "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.
 
* "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.
** "La prospettiva rovesciata", in Florenskij, ''La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983, pp 73-135. (in Italian)
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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}}
 
** "Die umgekehrte Perspektive", in Sikojev, 1989, pp. 7-79. {{de}}
 
** "Die umgekehrte Perspektive", in Sikojev, 1989, pp. 7-79. {{de}}
 
** "La perspective inversee", in Lhoest, 1992, pp. 67-120. (in French)
 
** "La perspective inversee", in Lhoest, 1992, pp. 67-120. (in French)
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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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
* 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)
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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}}
 
* 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.
 
* 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]
 
* 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]

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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]

Works

Books

Mnimosti v geometri, 1922, PDF; 1985, JPGs.
in Russian
in Italian
  • La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983.
in Romanian
in English

Selected articles and lectures

  • "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.
    • "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. (in 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)

Literature

Books

Book chapters, papers, 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. [6]

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