“Faith and Love to Russian Thought”: Lectures by S.L. Frank on Russian spiritual Culture

Abstract

Four lecture notes by S.L. Frank which kept in The Bakhmeteff Archive of Columbia University (USA) are published for the first time. Lectures were read in the second half of the 1920s the very beginning of the 1930s in Warsaw, Saarow, Belgrade, and Berlin. These are several pages of draft texts, written in ink with pencil editing according to the old spelling, built in the form of abstracts. They are united by one theme — Russian spiritual culture. In the publication, the abstracts are arranged sequentially: first, the problems of the originality of Russian thought, the religious principle in it are touched upon, then the presence of its two currents is affirmed — the religious-mystical and the social-radical, which, in unity and separation, form a wide context of Russian literature, literary criticism, journalism and philosophy 18th — first quarter of 20th century.