Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev Papers, 1920-1954

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
BAR Ms Coll/Vysheslavt︠s︡ev
Bib ID:
4078260 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Vysheslavt︠s︡ev, B. P. (Boris Petrovich), 1877-1954
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
1100 items (11 manuscript boxes)
Language(s):
Russian .
Additional Description:
https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/ldpd_bak_4078260.pdf
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Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts and printed materials of Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev. There are letters from Nikolai Berdiaev, Carl Jung, Anton Kartashev, Konstantin Korovin, Jacques Maritain, Aleksei Remizov, Grigol Robakidze, Theodore Strawinsky, and Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams. The manuscripts include essays and lectures on various topics including the Orthodox church, Russian literature and culture, philosophy, and the hereafter. There are numerous diaries, primarily from the 1930's and 1940's. The printed materials include clippings, off-prints, and various journals and books.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1957.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1958.

Papers: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1972.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1957.

Papers Accessioned 1958.

Papers Accessioned 1972.

Papers Processed 04/--/82.

Revision Description

11/12/2020 Biographical note was written by Tanya Chebotarev and added to the record by Katia Shraga. Authorities and notes revised and updated. ksd

Biographical sketch

Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev (1877-1954), Russian émigré philosopher and religious thinker, was born in Moscow in 1877 into a family of a sworn attorney of the Moscow Court of Justice. He studied at the University of Moscow under the Russian jurist and philosopher P. I. Novgorodtsev and later at the University of Marburg under Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp. Upon the publication in 1914 of his dissertation, Etika Fikhte (Fichte's ethics), he received a doctorate from the University of Moscow. Vysheslavtsev taught philosophy there until he was expelled from his homeland along with other Russian philosophers and intellectuals because of their anti-Marxism critique in 1922.

He first lived in Berlin, then in 1924, Vysheslavtsev moved to Paris, where he taught at the Orthodox Theological Institute and was associated with Nikolai Berdiaev. He soon became a leading figure in the Russian émigré philosophical community lecturing and writing on questions of metaphysics, ethics, philosophical psychology and social philosophy. Vysheslavtsev was particularly noted for his study (begun in an early work on the ethics of Fichte) of the irrational as the sphere of human contact with the Absolute. Subsequently he developed this theme through the application of concepts of depth psychology to ethics and to the interpretation of Christian doctrine.

From the time of the German occupation of France until his death in 1954 he lived in Switzerland.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Clippings (Information Artifacts) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Essays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Journals CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lectures CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Letters (correspondence) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Berdi︠a︡ev, Nikolaĭ, 1874-1948 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kartashev, A. V. (Anton Vladimirovich), 1875-1960 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Korovin, K. S. (Konstantin Sergeevich) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Remizov, Alekseĭ, 1877-1957 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Robakʻiże, G. (Grigol), 1881-1962 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Strawinsky, Théodore, 1907-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tyrkova-Williams, Ariadna, 1869-1962 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Books CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Theology CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID