Berdyaev
Americannoun
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He has been relatively mum on Berdyaev, who like others has lauded Russia as having a unique role in history.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2022
They were Nikolai Berdyaev, a well-known Russian religious philosopher; Lev Gumilev, an eccentric Soviet-era ethnologist; and Ivan Ilyin, a 20th-century émigré who was a fan of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2022
Strongly influenced by the 16th Century mystic, Jakob Boehme,* Berdyaev made the cornerstone of his philosophy the concept of what he called "metaphysical freedom."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an expression of what Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev described as Russia's split soul: torn between the attraction of anarchy on the one hand and the desire for a firm ruler on the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, in the study of a modest, middle-class home in suburban Paris, death came to Nikolai Berdyaev, 74, one of the great religious philosophers of his time.
From Time Magazine Archive
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