Sophia, God & A Short Tale About the Antichrist
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This volume contains several late works of Vladimir Solovyov, representing his final speculations about matters crucial to the destiny of humanity and of the world. As Solovyovs life was coming to an end at the close of the 19th century, his thoughts were turned toward three things: the end of the world (the Antichrist), the beauty and wisdom of the world (Sophia), and the nature of God. A completely new translation of the famous Short Tale About the Antichrist is presented here, along with revised versions of At the Dawn of Mist-Shrouded Youth, Three Meetings, and The Concept of God. An indispensable survey of Solovyovs late and most visionary works. Boris Jakim is our most distinguished translator of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian religious thought, and this volume is further evidence of the fact.--DAVID BENTLEY HART, author of The Experience of God and Atheist DelusionsA Short Tale About the Antichrist is Vladimir Solovyovs last philosophical work, and to my mind his best. Its combination of profundity and wit is matchless, and its vision of the 21st century begins to have a haunting sense of prophetic truth. With this excellent new translation, combined with revised versions of other late works by Solovyov, Boris Jakim adds new dimensions to the English readers understanding of one of the major Russian thinkers.--RICHARD PEVEAR, translator of War and Peace and The Brothers KaramazovThis volume brings together some of the last and most significant writings of the nineteenth-century Russian writer who is widely regarded as the greatest of Russian philosophers and religious thinkers--Vladimir Solovyov. The works selected by Boris Jakim for this volume are perfectly chosen to demonstrate both the breadth and the principal concerns of Solovyovs mature thought, reflecting as they do not only his literary genius in poetry, prose fiction, and philosophical essays, but also his life-forming mystical experiences and his fascination wi
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