Table of Contents

I. The Idea of Philosophy.- I. The Concept of “Something” and of the “Absolute Being”.- II. Solovyev’s “Absolute Being” and Scheler’s “The Eternally Astonishing Roofing of the Abyss of Absolute Nothing”.- III. Summary.- II. Solovyev’s Idea of “Integral Knowledge” and Scheler’s “System of Conformity”.- I. The Meta-Anthropological Aspect.- II. The Historical Aspect.- III. The Epistemological Aspect.- III. The Relation Between Religion and Metaphysics.- I. Typology.- II. The Problems.- IV. Systematic Philosophy.- I. “Organic Logic”.- II. “Organic Metaphysics”.- III. “Organic Ethics”.- IV. The Philosophy of Eros.- V. Special Problems.- I. The Feminist Issue and the Idea of God.- II. On the Question of Influence.- VI. Retrospect.- VII. Russian Philosophy from Solovyev to Shestov — Revision of a Soviet Taboo.- I. The Argument over Russian Philosophy.- II. From Theosophy to Phenomenology.- III. The New Religious Philosophy.- VIII. Soviet Judgement and Criticism of Solovyev.- I. The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, 1 st edition 1947.- II. The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, 2nd edition 1957.- III. Against Contemporary Falsifiers of the History of Russian Philosophy, 1960.- IV. History of Russian Philosophy, 1961.- IX. Soviet Appropriation of Scheler’s Phenomenology.- Notes.- Bibliography — A Summary of the Works by and on Vladimir Solovyev and Max Scheler.- Index of Names.