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There are 11 critical essays on Nikolai Berdyaev.
Critical Essays on Nikolai Berdyaev
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 Critical Essay by Douglas K. Wood
9,130 words, approx. 30 pages
 In the following essay, Wood considers Berdyaev along with T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and C. G. Jung as representative of modern thinkers whose works express a "revolt against time. "
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Michael Alexander Vallon
7,773 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following excerpt, Vallon offers a critical appraisal of the salient concepts of Berdyaev's religious philosophy.
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Critical Essay by Brian Horowitz
7,707 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Horowitz details the reasons for the ideological conflict between Berdyaev and his long-time friend M. O. Gershenzon.
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(The Paradox)
5,734 words, approx. 19 pages
1 A CONCEPTION OF MAN Berdyaev's entire thinking is anthropocentric. The structure of his existential philosophy is erected on the foundation of his philosophical anthropology. His preoccupation with the problem of freedom arises out of his deep interest and personal involvement in man's predicament and destiny. Man is the chief object of his concern. At the heart of his thought lies a persistent attempt to understand what it means to be a person. Berdyaev's philosophy of freed... from source:
(The Implications)
5,373 words, approx. 18 pages
1 THE DYNAMICS OF PERSONALITY Berdyaev's anthropology is strictly personalistic, and so is his philosophy, which he sometimes describes as a philosophy of personalism. His summum bonum is the human personality, its self-realization, its development and progress in the attainment of truth and beauty. Everything is seen from the viewpoint of personality. Everything is evaluated by the nature of its effect on the human personality. But man's personality, Berdyaev immediately insists, can... from source:
Critical Essay by Pitirim A. Sorokin
4,863 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Sorokin focuses on the social and historical concerns and implications of Berdyaev's philosophy.
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Critical Essay by Robert M. Randolph
3,597 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Randolph examines the spiritual significance that Berdyaev attached to human creativity, using the work of American poet Robert Bly to exemplify Berdyaev's criteria for genuine creativity in works of art.
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Critical Essay by Fuad Nucho
44 words, approx. 0 pages
In the following excerpt, Nucho explicates the significance of such concepts as freedom, necessity, and personality in Berdyaev's thought.
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