Levitskii, Sergei Aleksandrovich

Tragediia svobody [The Tragedy of Freedom]

[Frankfurt am Main]: Posev, 1958. Item #1492

350, [2] pages. 20 x 14.2 cm. First edition. Publisher's printed typographic wrappers. A very good copy with mild toning and light signs of use on wrappers. Pages clean, binding firm.

Tragediia svobody is the principal philosophical work of Sergei Aleksandrovich Levitskii, a student of Nikolai Losskii and one of the lesser-known but important émigré thinkers of the postwar generation. Written in exile and published in Frankfurt by Posev—a major intellectual outpost of Russian émigré anti-Soviet thought—this book constitutes a rigorous metaphysical inquiry into the problem of free will and moral agency.

In the preface, Losskii praises Levitskii as a spiritual heir to the Russian religious-philosophical tradition initiated by Vladimir Solovʹev, thereby placing the work in a lineage that includes thinkers like Berdiaev and Florenskii. Levitskii’s synthesis of Orthodox moral theology with existential philosophical categories makes this work a landmark in émigré thought, yet it remains relatively rare on the market.

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