000 03223nam a22005175i 4500
001 978-1-4020-3487-9
003 DE-He213
005 20161121230622.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 100301s2005 ne | s |||| 0|eng d
020 _a9781402034879
_9978-1-4020-3487-9
024 7 _a10.1007/1-4020-3487-3
_2doi
050 4 _aBJ1-1725
072 7 _aHPQ
_2bicssc
072 7 _aPHI005000
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a170
_223
100 1 _aFaggionato, Raffaella.
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Masonic Circle of N.I. Novikov /
_cby Raffaella Faggionato.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2005.
300 _aXIV, 310 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 1 _aInternational Archives of the History of Ideas,
_x0066-6610 ;
_v190
505 0 _aFreemasonry and Power: The Paradoxes of Petersburg -- Utopia and Reform in Moscow: N. I. Novikov’s Circle -- Russian Rosicrucianism, between East and West -- The Rosicrucians and Authority: An Alliance of the Throne and the Altar.
520 _aThe 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, in short all the attitudes and behaviours first practiced inside the eighteenth century Rosicrucian lodges constituted a cultural experience which spread throughout the entire society. Novikov’s imprisonment in 1792 and the war against the Rosicrucian literature were attempts to thwart a culture, based on the independence of thought that was taking root inside the very establishment, representing a menace to its stability.
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aPhilosophy of mind.
650 0 _aPolitical philosophy.
650 0 _aPhilosophy, Asian.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 2 4 _aEthics.
650 2 4 _aNon-Western Philosophy.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy, general.
650 2 4 _aPolitical Philosophy.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Mind.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781402034862
830 0 _aInternational Archives of the History of Ideas,
_x0066-6610 ;
_v190
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3487-3
912 _aZDB-2-SHU
950 _aHumanities, Social Sciences and Law (Springer-11648)
999 _c501473
_d501473