About the book: 2014 / The collection includes two of the most famous works of Nikolai Berdyaev - an outstanding Russian thinker, a follower of Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, one of the brightest representatives of idealistic philosophy. “Man”, “personality”, “individual”, “freedom”, “God” are the most important categories of Berdyaev’s philosophy. Berdyaev considered sex and love to be the main world issues and dedicated his work “Metaphysics of Sex and Love” to them. Sensuality, as well as the conservative desire to curb sex, have nothing to do with Love. The institution of marriage strengthens only generic love, and it is metaphysically lower than personal love. The highest form of love is not for procreation. Romeo and Juliet, Dante and Beatrice did not continue their family line. The highest manifestation of love is the renunciation of everyday things, the mystical secret of two. The work “Self-Knowledge” is written in the unique genre of philosophical autobiography. Berdyaev talks about the formation of his philosophical views, about his contemporaries, about his colorful life: he survived two revolutions, Russian communism, the crisis of world culture, two world wars; He was imprisoned four times, was exiled to the north, expelled from Russia and ended his life as an emigrant-exile, but never severed his internal spiritual connection with his homeland. The eternal questions that Berdyaev pondered were Love, Loneliness, Freedom, Rebellion, the Meaning of Life and his searches are more relevant today than ever, the thinker’s ideas are original and modern, his style is the greatest phenomenon of the Russian language.