Alexander Kashirin - биография, образование и работа

History in general and Russian/Soviet history in particular; literature, poetry (which I used to write myself before I got into a graduate school), art, especially iconography in which I dabble a little bit myself; religious and (how paradoxical!) existential philosophy; woodworking and general construction (that on so many occasions saved my butt); guns, target shooting and, occasionally, hunting

Presently, I enjoy most of classical music, jazz, and folk music from all over the world. I especially like flamenco, but, in moments of nostalgia, I still listen to "Deep Purple, " "Pink Floyd, " "Akvarium, " "Kino, " "DDT, " " Mashina Vremeni, " Vysotrkii, etc

Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" and "The Life of Brian"; The Russian TV series "Doctor Zhivago"; Stephen Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" and the series "The Band of Brothers"; "The Beast, " "The Lives of Others, " "The Devil Wears Prada, " "Enter the Dragon, " "Gladiator, " "Charlie Wilson's War, " "Atonement, " "Romance and Cigarettes, " etc

"Jay Leno, " "Mad TV, " "Saturday Night Live, " History Channel, Discovery, PBS, Travel Channel, The Animal Planet, any dog shows, "Seinfeld, " "Sopranos, " and some other shows that I often watch with my wife but cannot remember their names

All of Dostoevsky, especially "Notes from the Underground"; Astafiev's "Veselyi Soldat" and Tatiana Tolstaia's "Kys"; Pavel Florenskii's "The Pillar and the Foundation of Truth" and "The Iconostasis"; Miguel Unomuno's "The Tragic Sense of Life"; Omar Khayyam's poetry; Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus, " Sartre's play "No Exit, " Beckett's "Waiting for Godot, " and Lyotard's "The Inhuman"; most of Nietzsche's works; Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet"; most of Victor Pelevin and Victor Suvorov; most of Edgar Alan Poe and Mark Twain, and so forth. Oh, and did I mention Peter Chaadaev's "Philosophical Letters"--perhaps the post profound and the most underestimated piece of Russian literature and thought

"Man would sooner have the void for his purpose than to be void of purpose." F. Nietzsche "Man does not pursue happiness, only the Englishman does." F. Nietzsche "God made a major mistake when he tried to improve upon a dog and created a man." Popular wisdom "I live in order to die" sounds like a great slogan for an idiot...although it stands as the most self evident and scientific truth for all of us. Alexander Kashirin "Art, we've got art, in order not to die from the truth." F. Nietzsche Volumes have been written about the conflict between Faith and Reason, whereas from the point of view of practical wisdom, it is quite sufficient if one has either one or the other component of this classic dichotomy. The real problem arises when one has neither religion nor brains--these two most powerful instruments of self-discipline...That's how one becomes a moron, or "zhlob." Alex Kashirin

Консервативные

Existentialist/Agnostic