Avril Pyman

Pavel Florensky

A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia's Unknown da Vinci

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first biography in English of an extraordinary polymath whose great genius was stifled and finally extinguished by the Soviet Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continuum
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9781441187000
• ISBN-10: 1441187006
• Artikelnr.: 28343422

Autorenporträt

Avril Pyman

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Geoffrey Hosking
Preface
Chapter I: Childhood 
Chapter II: School 
Chapter III: From the Physico-Mathematical Faculty at Moscow University to
the New Religious Consciousness 
Chapter IV: The Melting-Pot. Autumn 1904 - Autumn 1908 
Chapter V: The Quiet Mutiny 
Chapter VI: The Four-leafed Clover 
Chapter VII: Catastrophe. 1917-1926 
Chapter VIII: Diversification - Art, Music and Science 1919-1933 
Chapter IX: Permafrost
Glossary of Names
Chronology of Florensky's Life
Index