Suburbs of thought. Philosophical walk

Second edition.

Romance? Travelogue? Treatise? Memories? Confession? All this at once. Together with the author, we go to the outskirts of Paris, where the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev and the French theologian Jacques Maritain lived. A walk from Clamart to Meudon turns into a journey through European culture of the first half of the 20th century with its religious and philosophical quests. Great contemporaries of the main characters - from Rodin to Rilke, from Lev Shestov to Charles Peguy, Marina Tsvetaeva and Albert Camus - become participants in a great conversation about philosophy, poetry and life. These are precisely the “suburbs” of thought - the space of its incompleteness, openness and freedom.

The book becomes the author’s “self-knowledge” against the backdrop of the fate of his heroes. Philosophical reflection is rooted in the personal, sometimes very personal, experience of the author and characters; history is intertwined with modernity, and the understanding of one’s own and others’ existential experience is intertwined with the sensory perception of the smallest details of the surrounding world, seen through the eyes of a true artist.