The Hermetic Symbolism of Andrei Bely’s History of the Becoming of the Self-Conscious Soul

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" The Hermetic Symbolism of Andrei Bely’s History of the Becoming of the Self-Conscious Soul "
Angelika Schmitt

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1064750
Doc. No	:	LA108379
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700593-01902011‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Angelika Schmitt
Title & Author	:	The Hermetic Symbolism of Andrei Bely’s History of the Becoming of the Self-Conscious Soul [Article]\ Angelika Schmitt
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Aries
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	19/2
Page No	:	231–247
Abstract	:	This article addresses some of the main theses of the dissertation on Andrei Bely’s opus magnum, The History of the Becoming of the Self-Conscious Soul. Bely’s work on philosophy of culture will be discussed in contrast to Rudolf Steiner and on the basis of a drawing illustrating its content. Convergences and differences concerning the crucial concept of the self-conscious soul with regard to Bely and Steiner are pointed out as well as some peculiarities of Bely’s historiosophical approach. The third part demonstrates the cognitive principles of the self-conscious soul, which for Bely are connected to its development during modern times. They also provide the means for the formation of the poetical structure of Bely’s text. A fourth part provides some examples of the metaphorical level of the text and shows the implications of Bely’s interpretation of the ‘spiral of history’. The last part discusses the definition of Bely’s method as “hermetic symbolism”. This article addresses some of the main theses of the dissertation on Andrei Bely’s opus magnum, The History of the Becoming of the Self-Conscious Soul. Bely’s work on philosophy of culture will be discussed in contrast to Rudolf Steiner and on the basis of a drawing illustrating its content. Convergences and differences concerning the crucial concept of the self-conscious soul with regard to Bely and Steiner are pointed out as well as some peculiarities of Bely’s historiosophical approach. The third part demonstrates the cognitive principles of the self-conscious soul, which for Bely are connected to its development during modern times. They also provide the means for the formation of the poetical structure of Bely’s text. A fourth part provides some examples of the metaphorical level of the text and shows the implications of Bely’s interpretation of the ‘spiral of history’. The last part discusses the definition of Bely’s method as “hermetic symbolism”.
Descriptor	:	Andrei Bely
Descriptor	:	anthroposophy
Descriptor	:	historiosophy
Descriptor	:	philosophy of culture
Descriptor	:	Rudolf Steiner
Descriptor	:	Russian Silver Age
Descriptor	:	Russian symbolism
Descriptor	:	self-consciousness
Descriptor	:	underground literature of early Soviet Union
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700593-01902011‬