Russian Theurgical Aesthetics

The final book of the author"s project on the study of the East Christian line of development of aesthetics (Fathers of the Church, Byzantium, Ancient Rus, Russia of the New Time) is devoted to the last most fruitful stage of the two-year-old history of the Orthodox aesthetic consciousness. The concept of "Theurgic Aesthetics" is indicated by a low-insuried powerful direction in the Russian implicit aesthetics of the end of the XIX - the first half of the 20th century, including the views of the largest religious thinkers (Vl. Solovyov, D. Merezhkovsky, V. Rozanova, N. Berdyaeva, P. Florensky, S. Bulgakova, I. Ilina, S. Frank, N. Lossky, etc), theorists of symbolism (Vyach. Ivanova, A. Bloka, A. White, Ellis), some avant-gardeists (V. Kandinsky, K. Malevich, V. Khlebnikov ) One of the main lines of this aesthetics was an eschatological approach to artistic creativity, that is, an understanding of the artist as a beed-coined theburg, designed to go beyond the limits of art and start creating the lifetime of people and all being for aesthetic laws. Its main principles: the metaphysical meaning of beauty, comprehensive symbolism, spirituality, artistic, sophilability of art, teurgicism. All this significantly increased the status of aesthetics and highly highlighted many significant aesthetic topics, the relevance of which remains today. The theurgic aesthetics spiritualized almost all the artistic searches of the silver century of Russian culture