The Meaning of History

by Daniel Pipes and Nikolai A. Berdyaev

In her brilliant new opening essay, Banerjee says of Berdyaev "he was never more than a curious but unwelcome guest in history. He fearlessly engaged it on the level of ideas while remaining alien to its means and ends, gifted with an incurable longing for transcendence." Witness to two world wars, Berdyaev observed the destruction of established cultures in the traumatic birth of new systems. Arrested on political suspicion-by Czarist and then...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138536733
• ISBN13: 9781138536739
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"