TY - BOOK ID - 136515897 TI - Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter PY - 2010 PB - Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, DB - UniCat KW - Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136515897 AB - While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. By investigating the development of a single theme in his work--his idea of the "spiritualization of matter", the "task" of humanity--Smith constructs a rounded picture of Soloviev's overall importance to an understanding of nineteenth-century thought, as well as to modern theology and philosophy. The picture that emerges is of a writer whose contribution to a Christian philosophy of matter resonates with many of the religious debates of modernity. ER -