Nikolai Berdyaev
1874 - 1948

Philosophy ... is the creative perception by the spirit
of the meaning of human existence.
-- Solitude and Society





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Berdyaev Bibliography
Part I - Books written by Berdyaev

Chronological Ordering reflects when first published in Russian or otherwise, with English first-published info, also (lit.) literal translation of title if the English differs from the original.

(1916) THE MEANING OF THE CREATIVE ACT trans. by Donald A. Lowrie, London: V. Gollanz, 1955; New York, 1955, 344 p.

(1923) DOSTOEVSKY trans. by Donald Attwater; London: Sheed and Ward, 1934; New York: Meridian Books, 1957. "Mirosozertsanie Dostoevskogo" (lit.) "The WorldView of Dostoevsky".

(1923) THE MEANING OF HISTORY trans. by George Reavey; London: G. Bles, 1936, 224 p.; New York: Scribner's, 1936.

(1924) THE END OF OUR TIME trans. by Donald Attwater; London: Sheed and Ward, 1933, 258 p.; "Novoe Srednevekov'e" (lit.) "The New Middle Ages".

(1926) LEONTIEV trans. by George Reavey; London: G. Bles, 1940, 230p.; "Konstatin Leont'ev: Ocherk iz istorii ruskoi religioznoi mysli" (lit.) "Konstantin Leontiev: Sketch from the History of Russian Religious Thought".

(1927-28) FREEDOM AND THE SPIRIT trans. by Olicer Fielding Clarke; London: G. Bles., 1935, 362 p.; New York: Scribner's, 1935; "Filosofia Svobodno Dukha" (lit.) "Philosophy of the Free Spirit" -- originally published in Russian language in 2 volumes, 1927-1928.

(1931) THE DESTINY OF MAN trans. by N. Duddington; London: G. Bles, 1937, 378 p.; New York: Scribner's, 1937.

(1931) CHRISTIANITY AND CLASS WAR trans. by Donald Attwater; London: Sheed and Ward, 1933, 123 p.

(1931) THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. London: Sheed and Ward, 1931; Idem. New York, 1932, 95 p. English Collection of Berdyaev Journal Articles:

  1. Russian religious psychology and communistic atheism.
  2. The Religion of communism.

(1934) THE BOURGEOIS MIND and other Studies in Modern Life. London: 1934, 134 p. English Collection of Berdyaev Journal Articles:

  1. The Bourgeois mind.
  2. Man and Machine.
  3. Christianity and Human Activity.
  4. The Worth of Christianity and the Unworthiness of Christians.

(1934) THE FATE OF MAN IN THE MODERN WORLD trans. by Donald A. Lowrie; [2nd ed.] London: S.C.M. Press, 1938, 126 p.; Milwaukee: C. Morehouse, 1935.

(1934) SOLITUDE AND SOCIETY trans. by George Reavey; London: G. Bles. 1938, 207 p.; "Ya i Mir Ob'ektov. Opyt filosofii odinochestva i obscheniya" (lit.) "I and the World of Objects: Philosophic Experience of Solitude and Society".

(1937) THE ORIGIN OF RUSSIAN COMMUNISM trans. by R. M. French, London: G. Bles, 1937, 188 p. (published first in German 1937; in Russian 1955 under title "Istoki i smysl russkogo kommunizma" (lit.) "Sources and Meaning of Russian Communism").

(1937) SPIRIT AND REALITY trans. by George Reavey, London: G. Bles, 1946, 181 p.

(1938) CHRISTIANITY AND ANTI-SEMITISM trans. by Alan A. Spears and Victor B. Kantner, Aldington, Kent: 1952, 59 p.

(1939) SLAVERY AND FREEDOM trans. by R. M. French, London: G. Bles, 1939, 268 p.; New York: Scribner's, 1939. "O rabstve i svobode cheloveka" (lit.) "Concerning the Slavery and Freedom of Man" (1939 publication date may be errata in Klepinine Bibliographie shewing neither trans. nor page-number; my G. Bles copy shows 1943 first-publishing date.)

(1946) THE RUSSIAN IDEA trans. by R. M. French, London: G. Bles, 1947, 255 p.; New York: MacMillan, 1947. "Russkaya Ideya. Osnovnye problemy russkoi mysli XIX veka i nachala XX veka" (lit.) "The Russian Idea: Fundamental Problems of Russian Thought of XIX Century and Beginning XX Century".

(1947) THE BEGINNING AND THE END: Essay on Eschatological Metaphysics. trans. by R. M. French, London: G. Bles, 1952, 256 p.; New York: Harper, 1952. "Opyt eskhatolicheskoi metafizki. Tvorchestvo i ob'ektivatsiya" (lit.) "Attempt at Eschatological Metaphysics: Creativity and Objectification".

(1947) THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN trans. by R. M. French, London: G. Bles, 1949, 202 p. (published first in French in 1947, 1952 in Russian:) "Ekzistentsial'naya dialektika bozhestvennogo i chelovecheskogo" (lit.) "Existential Dialectics of the Divine and the Human".

(1949) TOWARDS A NEW EPOCH. London: G. Bles, 1949. English Collection of Berdyaev Journal Articles:

  1. Spirit and Force.
  2. Some trends in Humanism.
  3. The Two Moralities.
  4. World discord and Christian unity.
  5. Social Revolution and spiritual awakening.
  6. Personality and community in Russian thought.
  7. The Power of the historical past and the future.
  8. Freedom and its difficulties.
  9. On Freedom to create.
  10. Freedom to create and the "Fabrication of souls".
  11. Sartre and the future of existentialism.
  12. Russia and the New Age.

(1949) DREAM AND REALITY: An Essay in Autobiography. trans. by Katherine Lampert, London: G. Bles, 1950, 326 p.; New York: MacMillan, 1950. "Samopoznanie. Opyt Filosofskoi avtobiografii" (lit.) "Self-Knowledge: an Attempt at Philosophic Autobiography".

(1949) THE REALM OF SPIRIT AND THE REALM OF CAESAR trans. by Donald A. Lowrie, London: V. Gollanz, 1952, 182 p.; New York: Harper, 1953.

(1953) TRUTH AND REVELATION trans. by R. M. French, New York: Harper and Bros., 1953, 156 p.; London: G. Bles, 1954 (French edition 1954; Russian n.d.). "Istina i otkrovenie. Prolegomeny k kritike otkroveniya" (lit.) "Truth and Revelation: Prolegomena to the Critique of Revelation".


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