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Availability
Spir's writings are totally unavailable.You would think that his connection to Nietzsche would generate some demand.Lestrade 15:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Lestrade
They can easily be found online by searching "A. Spir" in a Professional bookseller's website, like (RigdzinPhurba (talk) 21:49, 25 October 2009 (UTC))
AVAILABILITY Manuscripts, personal papers, photographs books of and on African Spir are availables at the Library of Geneva (Bibliothèque de Genève, formerly Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire de Genève), where they can be consulted. Cf. the catalogue: Fabrizio Frigerio,
Catalogue raisonné du fonds African Spir
, Genève, 1990. (RigdzinPhurba (talk) 08:04, 20 July 2009 (UTC))
Tolstoy & Spir
You are affirming that Tolstoy was influenced by Spir, after 1896. That is possible, but considering all that was published by Tolstoy before that year, such an affirmation may require some further explantions, especially since his ideas may not have changed noticeably after 1894, accordingly to M. Lozowy from McGill university. - writings on religion in the 1880, non-resistance in 1893 and articles such as Patriotism and christianity, and Patriotism or Peace ? in 1894 and 1896. I just got a book published in 1937 by the daughter of Spir ("Paroles d'un sage: choix de pensées d'African Spir. Paris; Je sers, 1937, and Genève; Labor, 65 pp., published at the occasion of his one hundreth anniversary) The biographer says indeed that Tolstoy had only known the works of Spir "a few years after" 1890 - after he was buried. But of the hundred thoughts by Spir, I can only see one, to the best of my knowledge, that Tolstoy may possibly have taken from Spir, since it is expressed in Slavery of our time, dated 1900 (on the concept on property, it says that it is not true that some people should own things that nobody else should have a right to use.) And it may well be that this idea could also be found in the Kingdom of God. Tolstoy was apparently so "impressed" by Spir, that he found an editor in Moscow that published, in 1901, a Russian version of a work by Spir. At his point, it would be interesting, and important, to clarify whether Tolstoy was indeed influenced by Spir, or it just happened that on religion, morals, economics and war, their search brought them to very similar conclusions. When her daughter spoke about her father, and mention also Tolstoy, did she only suggest that Spir had the same ideas that the great Russian author ? Thanks - André Boivin Québec
We read in the journal of Tolstoy (from Wikisource, May 2nd 1896 : "Still another important event the work of African Spier . I just read through what I wrote in the beginning of this notebook. At bottom, it is nothing else than a short summary of all of Spier' s philosophy which I not only had not read at that time, but about which I had not the slightest idea. This work clarified my ideas on the meaning of life remarkably, and in some ways strengthened them. The essence of his doctrine is that things do not exist, but only our impressions which appear to us in our conception as objects. Conception (Vorstellung) has the quality of believing in the existence of objects. This comes from the fact that the quality of thinking consists in attributing an objectivity to impressions, a substance, and a projecting of them into space." - Tolstoy himself recognized the influence of Spir, I admit; how he expressed it in his own writings is just another matter... André - Qc
Information about Spir
I felt obliged to transmit you the following information. I sincerely apologize for all the mistakes I made, for English is not my mother tongue. With a few minor corrections in the spelling, you have here many first hand quotations.
A little book has awakened my interest for African Spir : "Paroles d’un sage : choix de pensée d’African Spir, publiées avec une Esquisse biographique par Mme Édouard Claparède-Spir . Paris; Éditions "Je sers" (Genève; Éditions Labor), 1937, 65 pp.” - It is the book published for the centennial of his birth. The fact that the author is named Mme Édouard Claparède-Spir, although both parts of the book are signed by “H. C.-S.” probably means that the daughter of African Spir, Hélène, - who happened to have signed this copy of the book “Hélène Claparèd (E)- Spir, for the last "e" is unreadable - was married to a certain Mr. Édouard, and still kept, - although the front cover does not mention her at all - the name of her father. After reading this book, and wanting to learn more, I have found that this page contains a few errors.
“ His Greek mother , Helena Arsenowna Spir (née Poulevich), was the daughter of a famous painter.” Not true. I quote Hélène Claparède-Spir, while translating: was the daughter of the major Poulevitch and little daughter, by her mother, of the greek painter Logino.”
“From the age of eight Afrikan was educated at military academies.” I do not believe he went to a military school at the age of eight. Hélène wrote: “Accordingly to the custom of the noble family, boys were instructd first in a Lycée, then, in a militry school, with a view to take a rank in the army. Alo the little African was pitilessly dragged away from his quiet and happy life, to be plced in a boarding school, where he felt totally lost among noisy boys. Around 15 of age (...) he went through an intense religious crisis, spending hours hours knealed dowm at prayer. Accordingly to the Russian law, he was baptised in the greco-orthodox religion, which was the one of her mother, whereas his father was protestant. To join a monastery, to live there in the detachment from things of this world, of a pure and saint life, such was then his wish, which however he was not to realize. For, yielding to the entreaties of his mother, he followed the traditional channels, and enter the preparatory military school.”
“ In 1878 Spir contracted a lung infection. On the advice of his doctor, he moved to Lausanne , Switzerland, where he spent five years.” Hélène wrote, “around 1880”: “After having enjoy until then a good health in general, Spir contrated, around 1880, a severe pneumonia followed by rechute, from which he was left with an unfortunate cough for the rest of his days.”
More importantly, you should not ascribe his decision to the “advice of a doctor” His daughter wrote: “Thinking that the climate would be more favorable to the strenghtening of his health, Spir decided, in 1880, with one accord with his wife, to settle down in the sides of the Léman. (Pensant qu’en Suisse le climat serait plus favorable à la consolidation de sa santé, Spir décida, en 1880, d’un commun accord avec sa femme, d’aller se fixer sur les bords du Léman.) . His wife seems more important in this decision, accordingly to their daughter, than any “advice of a doctor”. In addition, his father, Dr. Alexander Spir, “slept almost all the time outdoors - he used to prescribe air cure, hydrotherapy, massage, exercice, etc”, , and such an exemple, and the precepts that goes with, were certainly enough for him to decide to move to Switzerland. All the more than his book, La Certitude en Médecine (Certainty in medicine), published in St-Petersburg in 1835, gave rise to the cabale of his fellows physicians, and Guizot never gave a follow-up for the publication of its French translation in 1836 , which suggest that any air cure in Switzerland might not have been a common advice from a doctor at this time.
That “advice of a doctor” masks very unhappily some important aspects of his apparent character, and may be totally misleading about his life.
1) He was not an hypochondriac, and nowhere we see that the distress of his body prevented him to work calmly, and with serenity, until the end of mortal life. “He never complained”
2) M. Hèlene Claparède-Spir discuss again that decision at another place in her little book, very noticeably just after what she said of Tolstoy in 1901 , which may well be the major reason in my opinion: “As he had neither close parents in Russia , nor any perspect to ever go back in these far away regions, ant that, on the other hand, he was straight off appealed to the liberal and democratic institutions of Switzerland, Spir wanted to acquired the Switzerland citizenship...” . Now replace that information with another earlier in his life: “... to grant
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