Facsimile of 1943 Edition. In this work Berdyaev outlines his philosophical journey and describes the influences which brought him to his intellectual position. In his view, the only way of escape from the many forms of slavery--spiritual, economic, political--which shackle and impoverish the spirit lies in the fuller realization of personality, as he defines it. Berdyaev essentially embraced a religious view of man in the world and his work played a large part in the renaissance of religious and philosophical thought in ...
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Facsimile of 1943 Edition. In this work Berdyaev outlines his philosophical journey and describes the influences which brought him to his intellectual position. In his view, the only way of escape from the many forms of slavery--spiritual, economic, political--which shackle and impoverish the spirit lies in the fuller realization of personality, as he defines it. Berdyaev essentially embraced a religious view of man in the world and his work played a large part in the renaissance of religious and philosophical thought in Russian intellectual life early in the 20th century. In 1922 he and other intellectuals were expelled from the USSR. In the end he advocated for a "personal transvaluation of values."
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Fair. First U.S. pbk edition (1944), Scribner's, with "A" on copyright page per Scribner's custom. 268pp. Binding intact although evidence of repair at first gathering, at spine heel. Text very good. Spine sunned and creased, light wear to covers. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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1943. Geoffrey Bles. Hard Cover. Book-VG. DJ-Good, edgewear & chips, spine discoloured. 8.5x5.5. 268pp. After describing his own philosophical journey, Nicolas Berdyaev here examines the various conceptions-spiritual, economic, political-to which man makes himself a slave in spirit. He deals not only with abstract philosophical ideas, but discusses war and nationalism, the fascist, the communist and the bourgeois.
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Good. 1944 Scribners Press A printing, black cloth hardcover, solid and unmarked, no jacket, mild wear, exowner name inscribed. Fast Shipping-Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!
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Very Good. First edition, 1944, hardcover with black cloth boards, octavo, 271pp., not illustrated. Book VG with rubbing and soil to boards, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. No DJ.