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4 unusual facts about Pavel Florensky


Florensky

Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (1882-1937), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, mathematician and electrical engineer.

Michael Hagemeister

He also edited several volumes of materials relating to Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), one of the most important and colorful personalities in Russian intellectual history.

Pavel Florenskij — Tradition und Moderne: Beiträge zum Internationalen Symposium an der Universität Potsdam (Tradition and Modernity: Contribution to an International Symposium at the University of Potsdam, 5. - 9. April 2000), (Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang, 2001): ISBN 3-631-37537-9: Notes: Includes selection of his letters from his travels in Germany, in Russian with German translations on facing pages.

P.A. Florenskiĭ i kulʹtura ego vremeni: P.A. Florenskij e la cultura della sua epoca: atti del convegno internazionale, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, 10-14 gennaio 1988 / a cura di Michael Hagemeister e Nina Kauchtschischwili (Marburg: Blaue Hörner, 1995)


Hierotopy

It differs from the phenomenology of the sacred (which has been studied by Mircea Eliade, Rudolf Otto and Pavel Florensky) insofar as it focuses on historical examples of hierotopic projects, that is, projects establishing a medium of communication between the mundane and the sacred.


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