Pavel Florensky and the Recovery of Christian Prometheanism
In 1931, a Marxist intellectual by the name of Anatoly Lunacharsky wrote a foreword for the Russian translation of Friedrich Holderlin’s unfinished tragedy The Death of Empedocles. Luncharsky praises both the work and the person of Holderlin as demonstrating tremendous courage. Holderlin’s madness is not, for Lunacharsky, a symptom of