The Spirit of the Silver Age. Towards the Phenomenology of an Era

This book is a historical and philosophical study of the Silver Age. The author identifies the most significant trends in the philosophical development of this era, studies the influence of the creative personality of F. Nietzsche on the views of domestic thinkers: L. Shestova, D. Merezhkovsky, N. Berdyaev, Vyach. Ivanova, M. Voloshin, P. Florensky, notes that philosophizing in that era in Russia was combined with the original interpretation of both artistic and sacred texts.
N. K. Bonnetskaya is the author of two monographs and numerous articles on the problems of Russian thought, the history of Russian philosophy of the late XIX - the first decades of the XX century. She introduces the concept of "Russian hermeneutics", indicates its origins in previous literary criticism and describes the creative method of Merezhkovsky and Shestov by this angle. The monograph examines the philosophy of the name, the new religious consciousness of the Silver Age, the occult sources of a kind of religious era. "The Spirit of the Silver Age" is especially clear "blows precisely in these phenomena of the era: this is the conviction of the author of the monograph, drawing the phenomenological picture of the silver age