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Multiple Histories of Russian Occultism and the Unfinished Modernity: Imperial Esoterica Versus Modernizations of Avant-Garde Conceptualism
by Dennis Ioffe (Département d’Enseignement de Langues et Lettres, Faculté de Lettres, Traduction et Communication, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium)
The essay offers an expansive and multi-stratified investigation into the role of esoteric traditions within the development of Russian modernity, reframing occultism not as an eccentric deviation but as a foundational epistemological regime integral to Russia’s aesthetic, philosophical, and political evolution.
https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/5/3/34
Multiple Histories of Russian Occultism and the Unfinished Modernity: Imperial Esoterica Versus Modernizations of Avant-Garde Conceptualism
by Dennis Ioffe (Département d’Enseignement de Langues et Lettres, Faculté de Lettres, Traduction et Communication, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium)
The essay offers an expansive and multi-stratified investigation into the role of esoteric traditions within the development of Russian modernity, reframing occultism not as an eccentric deviation but as a foundational epistemological regime integral to Russia’s aesthetic, philosophical, and political evolution.
https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/5/3/34