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Николай Александрович Бердяев 1874 - 1948

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By method of witness: revelation in Nicolas Berdyaev's religious philosophy. (PDF format 332kb)

A bibliography of Nicolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

• Part 1 -- Works by Berdyaev published in English (rtf format 135 kb)
• Part 2 -- Works about Berdyaev and his work, in Western European languages including English. (rtf format 231 kb)

About the bibliography

In the bibliography I have tried comprehensively to identify translations of Berdyaev's writings into English and secondary materials in English about Berdyaev and his work. Thus far I have listed 130 English translations of Berdyaev and 450 secondary sources in English and other European languages.

The bibliography partly duplicates the work of others, as there are standard bibliographies of primary Berdyaev materials and of secondary materials to 1992.

• T. Klépinine.Bibliographie des oeuvres de Nicolas Berdiaev. Institut d'études slaves, Paris, 1978 (Bibliothèque russe de l'Institut d'études slaves. Série érivains russes en France; 43)
• W. W. Cayard and T. Klépinine.Bibliographie des études sur Nicolas Berdiaev. Institut d'études slaves, Paris, 1992 (Bibliothèque russe de l'Institut d'études slaves. Série écrivains russes en France; 43⁄2).

However, these bibliographies were published in limited runs and are unobtainable from an Australian library or through the used book trade. I have been unable to see a copy - forcing me to start from scratch with this bibliography. The 1978 bibliography by Tamara Klépinine of works by Berdyaev lists 483 books, articles and other items, including unsigned and pseudonymous materials. A significant portion of these works remains difficult to find in any language.

My list of primary sources relies considerably on Stephen Janos's listing of translations of Berdyaev into English, including his own. See www.berdyaev.com. M. A. Vallon also has a significant bibliography, especially of primary works, in his 1960 biography of Berdyaev.An apostle of freedom: Life and teachings of Nicolas Berdyaev. Philosophical Library, New York, 1960. However I have added a number of items found elsewhere.

My listing of secondary materials began with a series of searches of electronic bibliographic databases. Additional items, especially theses, were found by searching the Internet catalogues of leading national and university libraries. This work was complemented by an exhaustive general search of the Internet using search engines and other links. The bibliography of secondary materials is a work in progress, as pre-1945 materials must be identified piecemeal using paper based sources. Nonetheless, I believe the bibliography to be reasonably complete for published material in English. Short book reviews have been excluded.

The listing of materials in other Western European languages covers commonly cited sources, but does not purport to be comprehensive - a thorough check of German, French, Italian, etc. periodical indices will be required for this. The gaping omission in the bibliography is, of course, materials in Russian.