The Mediterranean echo of permafrost. Spanish-Italian impulses of L.P. Karsavin’s religious and philosophical poems. Part 2
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2025-4-30-53
Abstract
The article represents the final part of a study on the influence of the works by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) and John of the Cross (1542–1591) on Lev Platonovich Karsavin’s (1882–1952) creative decision to accompany his theological poems with an author’s commentary. The author uses documentary evidence to show that the Russian metaphysician was familiar with the works about the Carmelite monk and attributed personal significance to him. Karsavin’s attention was not accidental, as evidenced by the panorama of how the name and legacy of John of the Cross entered the culture of European countries and Russia, and how the theme of mysticism was explored by humanitarian theories since the mid-19th century. Karsavin’s attitude towards mysticism was influenced by his unique worldview, which is evident in his work “Noctes Petropolitanae” and others.
Keywords
metaphysics,
mysticism,
religious poetry,
auto-commentary,
Karsavin,
Vaneev,
Dante Alighieri,
John of the Cross
Supporting agencies: I would like to thank I.I. Blauberg, L.M. Vinarova and M.Yu. Ignat’eva (Oganis’yan), for their important help in obtaining some inaccessible texts.
About the Author
V. I. Sharonov
Western Branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Россия
Россия
Vladimir I. Sharonov, Cand. of Sci. (Pedagogics)
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Sharonov V.I. The Mediterranean echo of permafrost. Spanish-Italian impulses of L.P. Karsavin’s religious and philosophical poems. Part 2. RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies. 2025;(4):30-53. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2025-4-30-53
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