George Young to present at Manhattan College

George Young, Ph.D., adjunct faculty member and Fellow in the Center for Global Humanities, will present his book The Russian Cosmists:  The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers at Manhattan College on April 3, 2014.

The book chronicles the life of cosmist thinker Nikolai Fedorov and the philosophical and cultural movement that blended spirituality, science and magic in the 20th century.

Young’s work has appeared in several periodicals and anthologies, and The Russian Cosmists was recently he subject of the lead review article in theTimes Literary Supplement (London).  He has also written blogs for theHuffington Post.

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