{"product_id":"9781644693193","title":"Abolishing Death","description":"Author: Irene Masing-Delic\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781644693193\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Academic Studies Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 09 Dec 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 466 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930. In this book Dr. Masing-Delic finds the seeds of this extraordinary concept in the erosion of traditional religion in late-nineteenth-century Russia. Influenced by the new power of scientific inquiry, humankind appropriated various divine attributes one after the other, including omnipotence and omniscience, but eventually even aiming toward the realization of individual, physical immortality, and thus aspiring to equality with God. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis aspiration, expressed in the ideas of Vladimir Soloviev, Nikolai Fedorov and in the renewed concepts of Gnosticism, brought such different writers as Maxim Gorky, Alexander Blok, Fedor Sologub, Nikolai Ognev and Nikolai Zabolotsky together in a single space of the myth of the final victory over death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47922826215582,"sku":"ING-9781644693193","price":45.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781644693193.jpg?v=1782891767","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781644693193","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}