Spirit and Reality - Hardcoverby Nikolai Berdyaev (Author), Boris Jakim (Foreword by) The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheistic and positivistic worldview and the beginning of a new era of the spirit. His philosophy goes beyond mere rational conceptualization and tries to attain authentic life itself: the profound layers of existence in contact with the divine world. He