What The Godseekers Found In Nietzsche The Reception Of Nietzsches Ubermensch By The Philosophers Of The Russian Religious Renaissance Berdiaev by Berdi︠a︡ev, Nikolaĭ; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich; Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Grillaert, Nel; Berdi︠a︡ev, Nikolaĭ; Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Serge 9789042024809, 9781435695351, 9042024801, 1435695356 instant download after payment.

At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, a large and varied group of the Russian intelligentsia became fascinated by Friedrich Nietzsche, whose provocative ideas inspired many of them to overcome obsolete traditions and to create new values. Paradoxically, the German philosopher, who vigorously challenged the established Christian worldview, invigorated the rich ferment of religious philosophy in the Russian Silver Age: his ideas served as a fruitful source of inspiration for the philosophers of the Russian religious renaissance, the so-called God-seekers, in their quest for a new religious consciousness. Especially Nietzsche’s anthropology of the Übermensch was instrumental in their reformulation of Christianity. This book explores how three pivotal figures in the Russian religious reception of Nietzsche, i.e. Vladimir Soloviev, Dmitri Merezhkovsky and Nikolai Berdiaev, engaged in a vacillating yet highly prolific debate with Nietzsche and how each of them appropriated his anthropology of the Übermensch in their religious philosophy. In order to explain Merezhkovsky's and Berdiaev’s assessment of Nietzsche, the author highlights the significance of Dostoevskii: only by reading Nietzsche through the prism of Dostoievsky could both God-seekers pin down the religious ramifications of Nietzsche’s thought. This book will be of interest to anyone fascinated by Nietzsche, Dostoievsky, Russian religious philosophy or Russian history of ideas.