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The Russian Cosmists - The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers (Hardcover)
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The Russian Cosmists - The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers (Hardcover)
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The nineteenth and early twentieth century saw the emergence of a
controversial school of Russian thinkers, led by the philosopher
Nikolai Fedorov and united in the conviction that humanity was
entering a new stage of evolution in which it must assume a new,
active, managerial role in the cosmos. In the first account in
English of this fascinating tradition, George M. Young offers a
dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the lives and ideas of the
Russian Cosmists.
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 and are now recognized
as essential to a native Russian cultural and intellectual
tradition. Although they were scientists, theologians, and
philosophers, the Cosmists addressed topics traditionally confined
to occult and esoteric literature. Major themes include the
indefinite extension of the human life span to establish universal
immortality; the restoration of life to the dead; the
reconstitution of the human organism to enable future generations
to live beyond earth; the regulation of nature to bring all
manifestations of blind natural force under rational human control;
the transition of our biosphere into a "noosphere," with a sheath
of mental activity surrounding the planet; the effect of cosmic
rays and currently unrecognized particles of energy on human
history; practical steps toward the reversal and eventual human
control over the flow of time; and the virtues of human androgyny,
autotrophy, and invisibility.
The Russian Cosmists is a crucial contribution to scholarship
concerning Russian intellectual history, the future of technology,
and the history of western esotericism.
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