Gorazd Kocijančič

In his foreword to the Italian (and my Slovene) translation of the essay “Spiritual Foundations of Life”, Olivier Clément wrote: “Soloviev is truly a theologian (or religious philosopher) of modernity, which he transforms into postmodernity”.Since there is no doubt that, on the one side, Soloviev is the founder or at least one of the most prominent representatives of Russian religious philosophy who decisively outlined its further development and the breadth of issues it addresses, and that, on the other side, the contemporaneity of contemporary thought may be interpreted either as his (late) modernity or as...

Gorazd Kocijančič

Olivier Clément je v kratkem uvodu k italijanskemu (in slovenskemu) prevodu spisa »Duhovne osnove življenja« zapisal: »Solovjov je resnično teolog (ali religiozni filozof) modernosti, ki jo preobraža v postmodernost«.Z ozirom na to, da ni nobenega dvoma o tem, da je po eni strani Solovjov utemeljitelj ali vsaj eden od najpomembnejših predstavnikov ruske religijske filozofije, ki je merodajno določil njen poznejši razvoj in horizont vprašanj, ki si jih je zastavlja, in da po drugi strani sodobnost sodobnega mišljenja lahko razumemo bodisi kot njegovo (pozno) modernost ali pa kot postmodernost, se s to tezo približujemo...

Giovanni Grandi

Riconoscersi creaturaL’incontro tra il pensiero dell’Occidente e dell’Oriente europeo non è che agli inizi. A poco più di un decennio di distanza dalla caduta del muro di Berlino molto lavoro è stato fatto per quanto riguarda l’avvicinamento economico dei due polmoni d’Europa[1] e certo molto c’è ancora da fare. Al contrario stenta a decollare un confronto ed un avvicinamento culturale, a riprova del fatto che i tempi della cultura sono più lenti di quelli del mercato; eppure per costruire la casa comune per l’uomo europeo non sarà secondario chiedersi chi sia quest’uomo europeo che, nel bene e nel male, ha...

Giovanni Grandi

Identifying ourselves as God’s CreaturesWestern and Eastern European thought have just begun to find a meeting point. Just a few years more than a decade have passed since the fall of the Berlin wall; quite a lot of work has been done for the economic approach of the two lungs of Europe and of course still a lot has to be done.Cultural confrontation and meeting, on the contrary, is starting with great difficulty, which proves that time needed by culture is longer than that needed by the market; and yet when building a home for the European citizen it will not be of secondary importance to understand this man who both in the good...