Pavel Florensky
On the Symbols of Infinity (An Essay on the Ideas of G. Cantor)
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On the Symbols of Infinity (An Essay on the Ideas of G. Cantor)
О символах бесконечности (Очерк идей Г. Кантора)

An essay published in the Symbolist journal Novyi put', one of the first expositions in Russian of Georg Cantor's theory of transfinite sets, which Florensky presents as a mathematical door to the infinite and the religious.
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Pavel Florensky
О символах бесконечности
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Новый путь, 1904
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- On One Premise of a Worldview · 1904
- Spiritualism as Anti-Christianity · 1904
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- Salt of the Earth: A Narrative on the Life of the Elder of Gethsemane Skete, Hieromonk Abba Isidore · 1909
- Anthony of the Novel and Anthony of Tradition · 1907
- The Author of Life · 1907
- Joy Forever · 1907
- In the Eternal Azure · 1907
- The Cosmological Antinomies of Immanuel Kant · 1909
- The Universal Human Roots of Idealism · 1909
- On Spiritual Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy · 1912
- The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters · 1914
- The Meaning of Idealism · 1914
- Reason and Dialectic · 1914
- Articles on the Beilis Case · 1913
- Did Not Count It Robbery (Towards a Judgement on Mysticism) · 1916
- Around Khomyakov: Critical Notes · 1916
- The Reduction of Numbers · 1916
- To My Children: Memories of Days Past · 1992
- The Philosophy of Cult · 1977
- The Trinity–St Sergius Lavra and Russia · 1919
- Reverse Perspective · 1919
- Celestial Signs (On the Symbolism of Colours) · 1919
- The Church Ritual as a Synthesis of the Arts · 1918
- Iconostasis · 1922
- Imaginaries in Geometry · 1922
- The Analysis of Spatiality and Time in Works of Representational Art · 1925
- Dielectrics and Their Technical Application · 1924
- Articles on electrical engineering in Elektrichestvo · 1923
- Articles in the Technical Encyclopedia · 1934
- At the Watersheds of Thought · 1990
- Names · 1926
- Onomatodoxy as a Philosophical Premise · 1922
- Christianity and Culture · 1923
- The Supposed State Structure of the Future · 1933
- Oro: A Lyrical Poem · 1935
- Letters from the Far East and Solovki · 1998
- Correspondence · 2004
- Works in Four Volumes · 1994
- Early Religious Writings, 1903–1909 · 2017
- At the Crossroads of Science & Mysticism · 2014
Sources
- «Флоренский, Павел Александрович». Wikipedia en ruso (biografía, «Столп», caso Beilis, arresto y fusilamiento, publicaciones).
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