Is Ivan Ilyin worht a read? I was looking around (the Internet) some of his works but couldn't find much what I was looking for (in Spanish and later in English briefly)
>>25335408I read the book Foundations of Christian culture which is a collection of essays he wrote on Christianity and its cultural subsets ie fairy tales and similar. I enjoyed it. If you are expecting a Nazi or something you will be disappointed. He was for traditionalism in all countries ie Muslims and Buddhists worship without religious oppression but that historically Christian nations must reclaim their heritage and drive out atheism. I’d recommend giving him a read.
>>25335465>If you are expecting a NaziOn the contrary, I'm surprised people has labeled him that because Putin likes him. That book you read is what I found, just that
>>25335615Yeah, his opinion on all cultures and religions (including Judaism I assume) is that “everyone has their own traditions and I respect theirs in their homeland as they should respect mine.” You can sort of infer he’d probably be a Zionist or support Islam and Buddhism in the Russian oblasts like Buryatia. I was surprised from reading him that he only detested atheism and its violent branches and offshoots ie leftism and USSR and that he wasn’t for forced conversion of others to orthodoxy. I expected wholly an “orthodox or die” type with Slavic chauvinism from all I read beforehand.
>>25337288Yeah, I assumed that, given how he is treated by some people. That he would be a regular chud from that time. I might get him on my read list, thanks, Anon
>>25337313Part 1 of his essay What is art?https://nicholaskotar.com/2017/01/25/what-is-art-ivan-ilyin/
> Joy shines and sings forth. But modern man, in his modern art, only mocks, laughs, and growls. He needs bread and circuses, not spiritual joy. He wants football, parades, races, and boxing. This is the proper “art” for modern man.>Joy comes from spiritual depths. You have to suffer to reach those depths, overcome the suffering, and be illumined by the struggle. But modern art hurls every new quirk and every bit of new nonsense, put together slap-dash (according to the principle of universal tolerance) from bits of stuff and from spiritual chaos.>Joy is a spiritual state. It comes from the heavens and from God. The voices of Schiller and Beethoven (9th symphony –NK) have never, and will never, be silent:>Joy, the spark of the divine>The beauteous daughter of the heavens…”>“What?” says modern man. “That’s just a metaphor. You’re exaggerating!”>No. This is the simple and exact truth.
