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<h2 class="product_biblio_title" style="margin-top:0px">The
Russian Cosmists</h2>
<h2 class="product_biblio_strapline">The Esoteric Futurism of
Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers</h2>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Published: 16 August 2012</p>
<p> 296 Pages </p>
<p> 235x156mm </p>
<p>ISBN: 9780199892945</p>
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