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The Meaning of the Creative Act
Смысл творчества. Опыт оправдания человека
His first major work, written in 1911–1914 and published in 1916. Against a Christianity centred only on law and redemption, it argues that man is the image of the Creator and is called to create: human creativity continues God's work and opens a third epoch, that of the Spirit. It examines the relation of creativity to redemption, knowledge, freedom, asceticism and holiness, sex and love, beauty, morality, society and mysticism.
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English
The Meaning of the Creative Act
Semantron Press, 2009
Translation: Donald A. Lowrie
ISBN 9781597312622
Reedición de la traducción de 1955, con prólogo de Boris Jakim
Русский
Nikolai Berdyaev
Смысл творчества. Опыт оправдания человека
The Conscious LibraryСмысл творчества. Опыт оправдания человека
G. A. Lemán y S. I. Sajárov, Moscú, 1916
Primera edición
Nikolai Berdyaev
Смысл творчества
The Conscious LibraryСмысл творчества
YMCA-Press, París, 1985
ISBN 2850650668
Собрание сочинений, t. 2
Other works by Nikolai Berdyaev
- F. A. Lange and Critical Philosophy in Their Relation to Socialism · 1899
- Subjectivism and Individualism in Social Philosophy: A Critical Study of N. K. Mikhailovsky · 1901
- The Ethical Problem in the Light of Philosophical Idealism · 1902
- Sub specie aeternitatis: Philosophical, Social and Literary Essays (1900–1906) · 1907
- The New Religious Consciousness and Society · 1907
- The Grand Inquisitor · 1907
- Philosophical Truth and the Truth of the Intelligentsia · 1909
- The Spiritual Crisis of the Intelligentsia · 1910
- The Philosophy of Freedom · 1911
- The Old and New Testaments in the Religious Consciousness of L. Tolstoy · 1912
- Aleksei Stepanovich Khomyakov · 1912
- Quenchers of the Spirit · 1913
- Stylised Orthodoxy (Father Pavel Florensky) · 1914
- Stavrogin · 1914
- The Soul of Russia · 1915
- Theosophy and Anthroposophy in Russia · 1916
- The Fate of Russia · 1918
- The Crisis of Art · 1918
- The Spirits of the Russian Revolution · 1918
- The Revelation about Man in Dostoevsky's Work · 1918
- The Spiritual Foundations of the Russian Revolution · 1918
- Dostoevsky's Worldview (Dostoevsky: An Interpretation) · 1923
- The Philosophy of Inequality · 1923
- The Meaning of History · 1923
- The End of Our Time (The New Middle Ages) · 1924
- Leontiev · 1926
- Freedom and the Spirit · 1927
- Studies on Jakob Böhme · 1930
- The Destiny of Man · 1931
- On the Dignity of Christianity and the Unworthiness of Christians · 1931
- Russian Religious Psychology and Communist Atheism · 1931
- Christianity and Class War · 1931
- On Suicide · 1931
- The Truth and Falsehood of Communism · 1931
- Man and Machine · 1933
- The Fate of Man in the Modern World · 1934
- Solitude and Society · 1934
- Spirit and Reality · 1937
- The Origin of Russian Communism · 1937
- Christianity and Anti-Semitism · 1938
- Slavery and Freedom · 1939
- Self-Knowledge: An Essay in Autobiography (Dream and Reality) · 1949
- The Beginning and the End · 1947
- The Russian Idea · 1946
- The Divine and the Human · 1952
- The Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar · 1951
- Truth and Revelation · 1954
- Put' (The Way), journal of Russian religious thought · 1925
- Types of Religious Thought in Russia · 1989
- Collected Works · 1983
Sources
- Berdiáyev, N. A. Смысл творчества. Опыт оправдания человека [El sentido de la creación]. Moscú: G. A. Lemán y S. I. Sajárov, 1916. Texto en la Biblioteca «Vejí».
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