Vladimir Borisovich Avdeev
A collection of works by Vladimir Borisovich Avdeev (born in 1962), a member of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation since 1993, one of the first to begin developing issues of the theory of neo-paganism, is devoted to the problems of the formation of racial consciousness. Metaphysical anthropology — a new philosophical direction designed to develop a coherent system of worldview. This is especially true for Russia, which has overcome communist dogmas and is busy searching for its rightful place in a changed world. This collection by V.B. Avdeev, the author of two novels and a sensational book «Overcoming Christianity» (1994), sums up a certain stage in the formation of ideological and philosophical development. The articles included in the collection, subordinate to a single concept, have already been published in print and cover the period from 1995 to 1999.
Over time, Vladimir Avdeev became famous as an extravagant intellectual writer. In 1994, he published a philosophical-theological treatise entitled “Overcoming Christianity”, which made a lot of noise. It was the first work in Russian where monotheistic and Abrahamic religions were criticized and natural polytheistic paganism was promoted. The treatise sparked lively discussion and was reprinted once, and its author became known as one of the ideologues of neopaganism.