MESSAGE TO UNBELIEVERS
THE REALM OF SPIRIT AND THE REALM OF CAESAR, by Nicolas Berdyaev, translated by Donald A. Lowrie; Victor Gollancz. English price, 15/-. BERDYAEV’S last book was prepared for publication after his death by a group of friends. The philosopher looks at the, relationship between man and society, and between man and God, and goes on to examine the nature of Communism, the fallacies of Marxism, the weaknesses of internationalism, and finally the concept of the "new" man, which he sees as an error unless it "presupposes spiritual movement and
change." A social order by itself cannot create the new man; it can only produce new types, of which there have been many in the past, leading up-or down -to the "technical man" of the 20th Century. , Berdyaev’s thoughts are thrown out with prophetic energy, and also with a prophetic disregard for the usual methods of analysis. He asserts instead of explaining, and he uses words which apparently have no meanings outside his own books; but his intuitions, when they can be grasped, are never shallow and are often profound.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 13
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182MESSAGE TO UNBELIEVERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 13
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