A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia : The Masonic Circle of N.I. Novikov
- المؤلف
- Raffaella Faggionato
- سنة النشر
- 2005
- الناشر
- Springer
- لغة الملف
- انكليزي
- نوع الملف
- Book
- تصنيف الكتاب
- Social Science
- تحميل الكتاب قراءة الكتاب
The author undertakes an investigation into the history of Russian Freemasonry that has not been attempted previously. Her premise is that the Russian Enlightenment shows peculiar features, which prevent the application of the interpretative framework commonly used for the history of western thought. The author deals with the development of early Russian masonry, the formation of the Novikov circle in Moscow, the ‘programme’ of Rosicrucianism and the character of its Russian variant and, finally, the clash between the Rosicrucians and the State. The author concludes that the defenders of the Ancien Régime were not wrong. In fact the democratic behaviour, the critical attitude, the practice of participation, the freedom of thought, the tolerance for the diversity, the search for a direct communication with the divinity.
الكلمات المفتاحية: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Enlightenment / Freemasonry / Novikov / Rosicrucianism / Russia / Eighteenth century / Utopia
