Berdjaev

authentic existence or a negative sociology

Marek Styczyński

pp. 81-91

in: Janusz Dobieszewski (ed), Polish Studies in Russian religious philosophy, Studies in East European Thought 62 (1), 2010.

Abstract

This paper is a contribution to the constantly increasing Polish interest in Russian thought, especially in Nicolas Berdjaev's philosophy. The differences between Western philosophy and Russian religious thinking are mentioned in passing. Berdjaev's existential personalism, which from the sociological point of view can be described as a freedom from the world, is dealt with. The thinker contrasts persons and their activities with the objectified world and emphasizes the existential strangeness of the person in the world of culture bound by different determining factors.

Cited authors

Berdjaev Nikolaj