The Unknowable

<p><em>The Unknowable</em> is arguably the greatest Russian philosophical work of the twentieth century. In its density and profundity it is comparable to Pavel Florensky’s <em>The Pillar and Ground</em> <em>of the Truth</em> and Sergius Bulgakov’s <em>The Bride of the Lamb</em>. In 1937 Frank described <em>The Unknowable</em> as “the best and most profound thing which I have so far written.” <em>The Unknowable </em>was the culmination of Frank’s intellectual and spiritual development the boldest and most imaginative of all his writings containing a synthesis of epistemology ontology social philosophy religious philosophy and personal spiritual experience: the soul transcends outward to knowledge of other souls thereby gaining knowledge of itself becoming itself for the first time; and the soul transcends inward to gain knowledge of God acquiring for the first time stable certain being in this knowledge.  </p>