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The Ideas Of The Cosmists Have In Recent Decades Been Rediscovered And Embraced By Many Russian Intellectuals. Here Young Offers A Dynamic And Wide-ranging Examination Of The Lives And Ideas Of The Russian Cosmists. The Spiritual Geography Of Russian Cosmism. General Characteristics; Recent Definitions Of Cosmism -- Forerunners Of Russian Cosmism. Vasily Nazarovich Karazin (1773-1842); Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev (1749-1802); Poets: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, (1711-1765) And Gavriila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816); Prince Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky (1803-1869); Aleksander Vasilyevich Sukhovo-kobylin (1817-1903) -- The Russian Philosophical Context. Philosophy As A Passion; The Destiny Of Russia; Thought As A Call For Action; The Totalitarian Cast Of Mind -- The Religious And Spiritual Context. The Kingdom Of God On Earth; Hesychasm: Two Great Russian Saints; The Third Rome; Pre-christian Antecedents -- The Russian Esoteric Context. Early Searches For Deep Wisdom; Popular Magic; Higher Magic In The Time Of Peter The Great; Esotericism After Peter The Great; Theosophy And Anthroposophy --^ Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov (1829-1903), The Philosopher Of The Common Task; The One Idea; The Unacknowledged Prince; The Village Teacher; First Disciple: Dostoevsky And Tolstoy; The Moscow Librarian; Last Years: Askhabad: The Only Portrait -- The Common Task; Esoteric Dimensions Of The Common Task; Fedorov's Legacy: Projectivism, Delo, Regulation -- The Religious Cosmists. Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov (1853-1900); Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov (1871-1944); Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky (1882-1937); Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948) -- The Scientific Cosmists. Konstantin Edouardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935); Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945); Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky (1897-1964); Vasily Feofilovich Kuprevich (1897-1969) -- Promethean Theurgy. Life-creation; Cultural Immortalism; God-building; Re-aiming The Arrows Of Eros; Technological Utopianism; Occultism --^ Fedorov's Twentieth Century Followers. Nikolai Pavlovich Peterson (1844-1919) And Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov (1852-1917); Svyatogor And The Biocosmists; New Wine And The Universal Task; Alexander Konstantinovich Gorsky (1886-1943) And Nikolai Alexandrovich Setnitsky (1888-1937); Valerian Nikolaevich Muravyov (1885-1932); Vasily Nikolaevich Chekrygin (1897-1922) -- Cosmism And Its Offshoots Today. The N.f. Fedorov Museum-library; The Tsiolkovsky Museum And Chizhevsky Center; Isrica -- Institute For Scientific Research In Cosmic Anthropoecology; Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912-1992) And Neo-eurasianism; The Hyperboreans; Scientific Immortalism: Igor Vishev, Danila Medvedev; Conclusions About The Russian Cosmists. George M. Young. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.