Showing posts with label Russian philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian philosophy. Show all posts
Sunday, January 29, 2023

The Russian accordion

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  I can´t stop watching this crazy Russian wrestler and his pet bear (!)...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Welcome to Russia!

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  I admit that this is quite funny, despite the anti-Ukrainian angle. Now, the dastardly kholokhols must respond in kind! By wrestling down ...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

The riddle of the world

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Previously posted on this blog on July 26, 2018 under a different title. This is what I want to believe in, when I´m not entirely awake or s...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The fourth fascism

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  I actually read "The Fourth Political Theory" by Alexander Dugin. My review is linked below. A propos recent events in Moscow, a...
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Friday, May 28, 2021

Knocking on the door of Progress

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"Knocking on Heaven´s Door" is a 2011 BBC documentary narrated by George Carey. It deals with a very obscure topic (at least outsi...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

Russian chimera

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“The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia” by Mark Bassin is a scholarly s...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Unjustly famous?

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"War, Progress and the End of History" is a small book in dialogue format, written by Russian mystic, philosopher and sage Vladimi...
Monday, September 10, 2018

The theosis of Vladimir Lossky

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Vladimir Lossky was the son of Russian philosopher N.O. Lossky. Both father and son were extradited from the Soviet Union in 1922, t...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

In search of Gurdjieff

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"In search of the miraculous" is an Australian-Yugoslav film about P.D. Ouspensky's search for esoteric truths and a mas...

The Moon eats people

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P.D. Ouspensky was a Russian spiritual seeker who searched for esoteric truth during a series of journeys to India, Ceylon and Egypt...

Beelzebub's grandson

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Gary Lachman's book "In search of P.D. Ouspensky" is a biography of the Russian occultist Ouspensky, whose life took ...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

The nihilistic fascism of Alexander Dugin

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"The Fourth Political Theory" is a book by Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher and political activist. He is sometimes ...
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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Roses and thorns

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I recently skimmed Daniel Andreev's curious work “The Rose of the World”. The author was a Russian mystic arrested by the Soviet a...

Cosmists, kooks and Anti-Christs

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"The Russian Cosmists" is a scholarly overview of a rather broad current of thought known as Cosmism. In many ways, the Cosmists...
Friday, August 24, 2018

The real Bolsheviks?

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"The Other Bolsheviks. Lenin and His Critics" by Robert Williams is a study of the political, philosophical and pecuniary ...

From a Russian mystic with love

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This is a translation of Vladimir Solovyov's "The Meaning of Love", with an introduction by Owen Barfield. Solovyov was ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Don't mess with Andrei Zhdanov

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This pamphlet contains a number of speeches and reports by Andrei Zhdanov, who for a few years was Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's “c...