[D66] The Russian Cosmists

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    The Russian Cosmists


    The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers


      *George M. Youngrussiancosmists*


    Description

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of 
Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering an 
advanced stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial 
role in the cosmos. In the first account in English of this fascinating 
school, George M. Young offers a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of 
the lives and ideas of the Russian Cosmists. Although they wrote as 
scientists, theologians, and philosophers, Young shows that the Cosmists 
addressed topics traditionally confined to occult and esoteric 
literature. Their writings explored the extension of the human life span 
to establish universal immortality; the restoration of life to the dead; 
the regulation of nature so that all manifestations of blind natural 
force were under rational human control; the effect of cosmic rays and 
other particles of energy on human history; and practical steps toward 
eventual human control over the flow of time. Suppressed during the 
Soviet period and little noticed in the West, the ideas of the Cosmists 
have in recent decades been rediscovered and embraced by many Russian 
intellectuals.


Hardback

Published: 16 August 2012

296 Pages

235x156mm

ISBN: 9780199892945



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