Epistolary Biography of S.L. Frank

Review of «Semen Frank. The Strokes to the Portrait of a Philosopher» by T. Obolevich (Moscow: Biblical Theological Institute, 2017)

Abstract

The proposed review considers the monograph “Semen Frank. The strokes to the portrait of philosopher” by a modern Polish researcher Teresa Obolevich, published in 2017 by the Biblical Theological Institute, and analyzes the author’s understanding of S.L. Frank’s creative development. The review presents and gives a general characteristic of Obolevich’s comparative analysis of two approaches to the «unknowable» developed by S.L. Frank and A.F. Losev respectively, and highlights a number of possible themes related to the life and creative path of S.L. Frank, which receive new coverage due to the use of materials from the Bakhmetevsky archive of Columbia University, previously not being introduced into scientific circulation. In conclusion, the attention is also drawn to a number of shortcomings in the monograph.