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Vladimir Solovyov

Five articles published in Questions of Philosophy and Psychology between 1892 and 1894. It denies that sexual love serves only the species: its meaning is to overcome egoism by recognising in another the absolute value each attributes to himself, and so restore the image of God in the human being. The union of man and woman foreshadows 'syzygy', the reunion of all creation with God, and the victory over death. It is his most read text outside Russia.