Russian existentialist philosopher and theologian (1874–1948)
Nikolai Berdyaev
Born
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev
18 March 1874
Obukhov, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
24 March 1948(1948-03-24) (aged 74)
Clamart, France
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Russian philosophy
School
Christian existentialism, personalism
Main interests
Creativity, eschatology, freedom
Notable ideas
Emphasizing the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (/bərˈdjɑːjɛf,-jɛv/;[1] Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1874 – 24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person. Alternative historical spellings of his surname in English include "Berdiaev" and "Berdiaeff", and of his given name "Nicolas" and "Nicholas".
^"Berdyaev" Archived 20 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (/bərˈdjɑːjɛf, -jɛv/; Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1874 – 24 March 1948) was a Russian...
Berdyaeva or Berdyayeva. It may refer to: Lydia Berdyaev (1871–1945), Russian poet, wife of NikolaiNikolaiBerdyaev (1874–1948), Russian religious and political...
meanings inherent in Russian thinkers, inherent in the word pravda. NikolaiBerdyaev also pointed out the striving characteristic of Russian thought "to...
Rozanov, Lev Shestov, Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, NikolaiBerdyaev, Pitirim Sorokin, and Vladimir Vernadsky. From the early 1920s to late...
fascism, Führerprinzip, Stalinism, Maoism, and Juche. According to NikolaiBerdyaev (1874–1948), Leninism represented a new type of leaderism, featuring...
Kazakh former ice hockey winger NikolaiBerdyaev (1874–1948), Russian religious and political philosopher Nikolai Bogomolov (born 1991), Russian professional...
responsibility, and free will. In both Sartre and Nietzsche (and in NikolaiBerdyaev), the individual is called upon to create their own values, rather...
attributes his ideas about an atemporal human fall to Troubetzkoy and NikolaiBerdyaev. "Trubetskoy Family". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 August...
the Nobel committee received 32 nominations for 22 writers including NikolaiBerdyaev, T. S. Eliot (awarded in 1948), E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, Arnulf...
friendship with the existentialist philosopher NikolaiBerdyaev, but the two became distanced later, through Berdyaev's not understanding Florovsky's ordination...
football player Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874–1948), a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein...
circle of prominent Russian intellectuals and artists which included NikolaiBerdyaev, Sergei Diaghilev, Dmitri Merezhkovsky and Vasily Rozanov. Shestov...
century earlier. The term Silver Age was first suggested by philosopher NikolaiBerdyaev, but it only became customary to refer thus to this era in literature...
Jaspers, Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, and Russian philosophers NikolaiBerdyaev and Lev Shestov. Karl Barth added to Kierkegaard's ideas the notion...
employees soon thinned significantly. Ilyin briefly cooperated with NikolaiBerdyaev on Russian Religious Renaissance but the philosopher of love, moved...
(1871–1952) Louis Berkhof (1873–1957) Albert C. Knudson (1873–1953) NikolaiBerdyaev (1874–1948) Karl Heim (1874–1958) Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) Reginald...
rubbing shoulders with such famous Russian figures as Lev Shestov and NikolaiBerdyaev. It is here he discovered literature and religion. Matzneff spent a...
claiming it "raises the right questions", but "poses the wrong answers". NikolaiBerdyaev wrote that he may have influenced the Eurasianists' acceptance of the...
Schopenhauer Friedrich W. J. Schelling Johann G. Fichte Friedrich H. Jacobi NikolaiBerdyaev Henri Bergson Franz Brentano Joseph Kleutgen Semyon Frank Gottlob Frege...
Beauvoir Gustave Belot Julien Benda Alain de Benoist Daniel Bensaïd NikolaiBerdyaev Gaston Berger Henri Bergson Gilles Bernheim François Bernier Henri...
("das Zwischenmenschliche"). Two Russian philosophers, Lev Shestov and NikolaiBerdyaev, became well known as existentialist thinkers during their post-Revolutionary...
Moore (1873–1958). Common sense theorist, ethical non–naturalist. NikolaiBerdyaev (1874–1948). Existentialist. Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945). Neo-Kantianism...
of Herzen and Solzhenitsyn, who, like NikolaiBerdyaev, retained a deep affection for Russia. Unlike Berdyaev and Solzhenitsyn, Zinoviev was guided by...
Man, and the Church NikolaiBerdyaev, The End of Our Time (1933) NikolaiBerdyaev, Christianity and Class War (1933) NikolaiBerdyaev, Dostoievsky: An Interpretation...