Utopie nieśmiertelności. Nikołaj Fiodorow i Wasilij Rozanow
Utopias of immortality. Nikolai Fedorov and Vasily Rozanov

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this work is to analyze idea of immoratlity by two Russian thinkers: Nikolai Fedorov and Vasily Rozanov. At the beginning, Fedorov’s philosophy is presented, who claimed that death needs to be defeated and all the dead people should be resurrected. Fedorov understood this task as a continuation of the mission of Christ and the realization of the fundamental postulate of Christianity — the salvation of a man. Then, the text deals with the Rozanov’s idea of immortality. He did not accept Christian version of immortality and tried to replace it with his own project, which involved a merger with the super-individual flow of life. This implied an agreement for the destruction of the individual human. In conclusion, it is said that although Fedorov’s and Rozanov’s ideas seem to be opposite, in fact, glorification of life and desire to defeat death connect them.

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