Russian philosopher Nicolas Berdyaev was born on 18 March 1874, and died in 1948. In “The Destiny of Man”, a book dedicated to Ethics and to the future of mankind, ...

Berdyaev was born in Kiev into an aristocratic military family. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely. He read Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Kant ...

In his 1923 book The End of Our Time, the Russian thinker Nikolai Berdyaev says that modernity has spiritually exhausted mankind, and that the time is ripe for a return to interiority, to a world ...

Berdyaev is pointing to a problem that happens in many an aspect of life, ancient and modern. It is easy to find recent examples of conventional falsity. The modern esoteric movement is not free ...

The Way: Religious Thinkers of the Russian Emigration in Paris and Their Journal, 1925-1940 Antoine Arjakovsky Translated by Jerry Ryan Edited by John ...

Berdyaev’s reputation, which matches his own self-descriptions, is that of an intuitive and occasional thinker, uninterested in the overarching coherence of his thought.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev (pronounced Bird-yah-yev) was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, but he was never orthodox in either religion or politics. He was exiled to northern Russia ...