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Nikolai Berdiaev was a prominent personalist philosopher in inter-war Europe, influencing such disparate thinkers as Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier, Hannah Arendt, and Eric Voegelin. This chapter looks at Berdiaev’s personalism, especially its origins in his pre-revolutionary writings, focusing on Berdiaev’s call for a new Christian philosophy of the person, one that would assert the central value of the human person and insist on the full freedom of the person in relationship to society, the church, and the state. Berdiaev’s trenchant critique of the erasure of the person in modernity, and his prescient insights into the essence of twentieth-century totalitarianism, led him to become one of the leading European intellectuals of the inter-war era. |
