Man’s Soul — 1993 ·

An Introductory Essay in Philosophical Psychology

By S.L. Frank

Translated by Boris Jakim

“As a volume, Man’s Soul (Dusha cheloveka) is a valuable work from several points of view. First and foremost, it is important precisely as a work in philosophy…[The translator] is to be congratulated for a very readable work, which is still scrupulously faithful to Frank as a philosopher and author.”

Symposium, A Journal of russian Thought

S.L. Frank (1877–1950) was a leading figure in the fascinating flowering of Russian philosophical thought that spanned roughly the first five decades of this century. Frank was expelled from Russia in 1922 and worked in European exile until his death in London. His most important works are The Object of Knowledge (1915), an examination of the limits of abstract knowledge; The Soul of Man (1917), a work of philosophical psychology; The Foundations of Social Being (1930), a work of social philosophy; The Unknowable (1939); The Light Shineth in Darkness (1949), an exploration of the nature of evil in the world; and Reality and Man (published posthumously in 1956), a metaphysics of human being.

—From the translator’s preface