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ru | en | it | gr About the Author Books POETRY PROSE ESSAYS    INTERVIEW Freedom as Eschatological Reality (A Paper Presented at the International Conference “Freedom is the Gift of the Spirit and Calling in the Church and in Society,” Moscow, August 16-18, 2006) We are grateful to the Publishing house Bucknell University Press for the permission to use the fragment of the book on this site. The complete article is published in: Olga Sedakova. Freedom to believe: philosophical and cultural essays. Bucknell University Press, 2010. <…> I will venture to summarize: freedom (“Born in order to know you, / In order to give you a name...”) constitutes the very nature of poetry, its favorite theme, its form, and its content. Freedom is the first condition of creation itself (it is a well-known theme: you can not sing in a cage). Every completely successful composition represents a glorification of freedom as well as its direct demonstration. Beauty cannot be whe

Freedom as Eschatological Reality | Olga Sedakova's Official Web Site ru | en | it | gr About the Author Books POETRY PROSE ESSAYS INTERVIEW Freedom as Eschatological Reality (A Paper Presented at the International Conference “Freedom is the Gift of the Spirit and Calling in the Church and in Society,” Moscow, August 16-18, 2006) We are grateful to the Publishing house Bucknell University Press for the permission to use the fragment of the book on this site. The complete article is published in: Olga Sedakova. Freedom to believe: philosophical and cultural essays. Bucknell University Press, 20

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