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Young Eun Park

Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, Jahrgang 73 (2017), Ausgabe 1, Seite 117 - 140

The ideas of Konstantin Tsiolkovskii, the world’s first rocket inventor, offered a whole host of opportunities to Russian writers and artists who, at the beginning of the 20th century, were seeking a new world view to broaden their sources of artistic and ideological inspirations. However, his views as a philosopher and thinker received little attention, despite the fact that he was decorated with the Soviet State Medal of Honor in recognition of his brilliant achievements as a scientist. This paper examins Tsiolkovskii’s thoughts on science and philosophy together with his influence on contemporary Soviet intellectuals, especially those who have been less studied so far rather than those who have already been explored in association with Tsiolkovskii in the context of Soviet fantasy literature. Tsiolkovskii’s scientific theories and ideas are discussed in relation to contemporary literature in three categories: confidence in evolution and world transformation by overcoming the law of entropy; conviction of human immortality based on pantheism and animism; and the manifestation of spiritual evolution in theosophy.

Young Eun Park

Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, Jahrgang 69 (2014), Ausgabe 2, Seite 391 - 409

This study investigates the influence of the Soviet scientist and philosopher Konstantin Tsiolkovskii on the Korean-born Russian writer Anatolii Kim. Kim combines literature with Tsiolkovskii’s scientific theories, which offer a wide range of understanding the world that exceeds simple science, thus expanding their horizons. Kim’s motif of metamorphosis is based on the Soviet scientist’s theory of the atom as being alive with both senses and spirit. This view culminates in both pan-psychism and hylozoism, and thus corresponds to Kim’s own worldview, who understands all things in the natural world as part of a fl ow of energy and death as a starting point for transformation into another being. This study therefore examines Tsiolkovskii’s ideas of atomism, monism, and views on the future of humanity and the universe. Tsiolkovski’s philosophy is not simply an adornment in Kim’s work but rather the main subject.

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