The research project "Russian Modernism as exemplified by Vasilij Rozanov", which has been running since the mid-1980s, culminated in the 2003 monograph "An den Grenzen der Moderne. The Thinking and Writing of Vasilij Rozanov" (680 pp.), published in 2003. This analysed and interpreted the work of a Russian intellectual in the context of contemporary culture. In particular, the focus was on proving the specific internal relationship between philosophical, religious and aesthetic thought in "word creation" (slovotvorčestvo) as well as the autonomising aesthetic discourse's rejection of its implementation in practice, such as that envisaged by the Futurists as "life creation" (žiznetvorčestvo). Against the terrorisation and totalisation of literature according to Savinkov's model of political life (similar later in Kojève's philosophy and in Stalinism) stood a form of life of a diversity of viewpoints (Bakhtin: polyphony), a kind of biographically realised artistic prose. Moreover, the modernisation in the form of differentiation that prevailed in the West was counteracted by an anti-Cartesian syncretism that equated agape and sexus. The death cult of Russian totalitarianism (Hansen-Löve) was prevented, as it were, in the context of the philosophy of life by an apotheosis of life. No wonder Rozanov, who was banned during the Soviet era, has been a Russian cult author since the 1990s.