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The Russian Cosmists
- The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers
Engelsk Hardback
The Russian Cosmists
- The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers
Engelsk Hardback

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In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering an advanced stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos. In the first account in English of this fascinating school, George M. Young offers a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the lives and ideas of the Russian Cosmists. Although they wrote as scientists, theologians, and philosophers, Young shows that the Cosmists addressed topics traditionally confined to occult and esoteric literature. Their writings explored the extension of the human life span to establish universal immortality; the restoration of life to the dead; the regulation of nature so that all manifestations of blind natural force were under rational human control; the effect of cosmic rays and other particles of energy on human history; and practical steps toward eventual human control over the flow of time. Suppressed during the Soviet period and little noticed in the West, the ideas of the Cosmists have in recent decades been rediscovered and embraced by many Russian intellectuals.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
296
ISBN-13:
9780199892945
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0199892946
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
16 aug 2012
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
241mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
16 aug 2012
Forfatter(e):
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