For For students of Russian philosophy and of Florovsky's early thought; demanding, and not theology for the general reader.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
5 of 5very hard
His philosophical essays, including the 1926 essay on utopianism, in English. Demanding, and the translation is incomplete in places.
How it proceeds
Philosophic5 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical3 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Volume twelve of the Collected Works of Georges Florovsky, published by Büchervertriebsanstalt in Vaduz in 1989 under the general editorship of Richard S. Haugh. Alexis Klimoff describes it as fifteen items with an appendix by Haugh on Solzhenitsyn, and notes that it brings new material into English, among it the 1926 essay "The Metaphysical Premises of Utopianism", although the translation leaves out that essay's fifth section.
