«BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM», OR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND ROME THROUGH THE PRISME OF THE THIRD

Since the twenties of the last century in various fields of the Greek culture (in the works of A. Papadiamandis in bélles-léttres, of Ph. Kontoglou and N. Pentzikis in iconography and painting, D. Pikionis in architecture, B. Tatakis, Ch. Yannaras, J. Romanides, J. Zizioulas and others in philosophy...

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Main Author: Олексій Каменских
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Language:English
Published: Odessa I. I. Mechnykov National University 2017-06-01
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Online Access:http://doksa.onu.edu.ua/article/view/143698
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description Since the twenties of the last century in various fields of the Greek culture (in the works of A. Papadiamandis in bélles-léttres, of Ph. Kontoglou and N. Pentzikis in iconography and painting, D. Pikionis in architecture, B. Tatakis, Ch. Yannaras, J. Romanides, J. Zizioulas and others in philosophy and theology) one may see development of a tendency which may be characterized in a first approximation as “Neo-Byzantinism. In a measure with movement might be connected with a failure of the political project that had its beginning in the Greek revolution of 1821 and its tragic result in the destruction of Greek communities in Asia Minor in 1923 (after in Constantinople too). In general the principle of Neo-Byzantinism might be formulated as following: Greece is not an ordinary nation and cannot build its identity according to the model of a neo-European national state (in spite of just this process actually proceeds in 20th c.). Paradoxically the fundamental principle of Greek culture is recognized in Byzantine Orthodoxy as supra-territorial and moreover supra-ethnic cultural model. Many of mentioned Greek authors find the detailed development of philosophical, theological, artistic aspects of this model in the writings of Russian religious philosophers and byzantinists of 19 and 20th c. from the early Slavophiles (like I. Kirejevsky and A. Khomyakov) up to Russian emigrate authors (mainly in Paris) like G. Florovsky, V. Lossky, L. Ouspensky. It’s very meaningful that Greek intellectuals “recognize in writings of representatives of “the Third Rome the image of “the Second Rome’s culture; they receive it as own (unlike to, for example, the “western one). So Basil Tatakis discovers the Byzantine type of spirituality in the works of I. Kirejevsky, F. Dostoevsky, N. Berdiaeff (the last chapter of his famous “Byzantine Philosophy “Byzantium after Byzantium is devoted to Russian culture that has preserved the spiritual tradition of Byzantium). So Ch. Yannaras recognizes the Byzantine type of sociality in a Russian Orthodox parish in Paris.
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spelling doaj.art-2ad43f6cd12b4394a2e6139cb473e79f2022-12-21T23:14:33ZengOdessa I. I. Mechnykov National UniversityДокса2410-26012017-06-0101(27)13414710.18524/2410-2601.2017.1(27).143698143698«BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM», OR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND ROME THROUGH THE PRISME OF THE THIRDОлексій Каменских0Національний дослідницький університет “Вища школа економіки” (м. Пермь, Росія)Since the twenties of the last century in various fields of the Greek culture (in the works of A. Papadiamandis in bélles-léttres, of Ph. Kontoglou and N. Pentzikis in iconography and painting, D. Pikionis in architecture, B. Tatakis, Ch. Yannaras, J. Romanides, J. Zizioulas and others in philosophy and theology) one may see development of a tendency which may be characterized in a first approximation as “Neo-Byzantinism. In a measure with movement might be connected with a failure of the political project that had its beginning in the Greek revolution of 1821 and its tragic result in the destruction of Greek communities in Asia Minor in 1923 (after in Constantinople too). In general the principle of Neo-Byzantinism might be formulated as following: Greece is not an ordinary nation and cannot build its identity according to the model of a neo-European national state (in spite of just this process actually proceeds in 20th c.). Paradoxically the fundamental principle of Greek culture is recognized in Byzantine Orthodoxy as supra-territorial and moreover supra-ethnic cultural model. Many of mentioned Greek authors find the detailed development of philosophical, theological, artistic aspects of this model in the writings of Russian religious philosophers and byzantinists of 19 and 20th c. from the early Slavophiles (like I. Kirejevsky and A. Khomyakov) up to Russian emigrate authors (mainly in Paris) like G. Florovsky, V. Lossky, L. Ouspensky. It’s very meaningful that Greek intellectuals “recognize in writings of representatives of “the Third Rome the image of “the Second Rome’s culture; they receive it as own (unlike to, for example, the “western one). So Basil Tatakis discovers the Byzantine type of spirituality in the works of I. Kirejevsky, F. Dostoevsky, N. Berdiaeff (the last chapter of his famous “Byzantine Philosophy “Byzantium after Byzantium is devoted to Russian culture that has preserved the spiritual tradition of Byzantium). So Ch. Yannaras recognizes the Byzantine type of sociality in a Russian Orthodox parish in Paris.http://doksa.onu.edu.ua/article/view/143698конструкти національної міфологіївізантіяросійськ філософіягрецький неовізантинізм.
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«BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM», OR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND ROME THROUGH THE PRISME OF THE THIRD
Докса
конструкти національної міфології
візантія
російськ філософія
грецький неовізантинізм.
title «BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM», OR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND ROME THROUGH THE PRISME OF THE THIRD
title_full «BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM», OR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND ROME THROUGH THE PRISME OF THE THIRD
title_fullStr «BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM», OR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND ROME THROUGH THE PRISME OF THE THIRD
title_full_unstemmed «BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM», OR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND ROME THROUGH THE PRISME OF THE THIRD
title_short «BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM», OR THE IMAGE OF THE SECOND ROME THROUGH THE PRISME OF THE THIRD
title_sort byzantium after byzantium or the image of the second rome through the prisme of the third
topic конструкти національної міфології
візантія
російськ філософія
грецький неовізантинізм.
url http://doksa.onu.edu.ua/article/view/143698
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