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Alexandre Kojève and Russian philosophy

more severe. Must Russian philosophy always be embedded within a national intellectual project, or might its ideas and themes move more fluidly—at times even detached from the political views of its ... political and ideological ramifications of Russian philosophy, we ought to examine its blind spots: hidden interlocutors, outsiders, refugees and renegades. In this regard, the articles collected in

The paradoxical anchoring of Kojève’s philosophizing in the tradition of Russian religious philosophy

The subject of this paper is Alexandre Kojève’s relationship to Russian Religious Philosophy, which is characterized by a paradoxical contrast between Kojève’s openly critical judgment of it, on the ... , implicit influence of this philosophical tradition on his own atheistic philosophizing on the other. The hidden influence of Russian Religious Philosophy, Kojève's engagement with the philosophical ideas of

The ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment in Russia: Adam Smith and Semyon Efimovich Desnitskii on the philosophy of history

central point of their interaction is the issues of the philosophy of history based on natural-law assumptions and focus on understanding the formation of history, culture, citizenship, and social ... Western Enlightenment, but also as a response to Russian political circumstances” (Hamburg 2016, p. 550). Philosophy of history between morality, law, and social transformations In presenting the dominant

Ota Weinberger’s conception of democracy: reconstructing an unexplored political theory

Ota Weinberger was a Czech-Austrian jurist, whose core academic work on issues of democracy was mostly published in the 1990s. In his writings, he focused primarily on legal philosophy from a ... ” ( Verovšek 2022 , p. 409). The last section will elucidate the role of institutions, as his political theory is inseparable from the (neo)institutionalist approach of his legal philosophy. A short biography

Bulgakov’s sophiology and the neopatristic synthesis

In 1922, many representatives of the Russian Intelligentsia, including many philosophers, were exiled from the young soviet state. Many left with the so-called Philosophy Steamer (Chamberlain in The ... AllRussian Church Council, 1917–1918. Bulgakov had started to develop Sophiology as a political economist in his doctoral dissertation Filosofiia khoziaistva (Philosophy of Economy) in 1912, and would

The concept of creativity in Georges Florovsky’s thought

had by this time become a key concept in Russian pre-revolutionary and later émigré thought. It is associated above all with Nikolai Berdyaev’s philosophy, but it also plays an important role in Sergei ... Sergei Bulgakov's philosophy of economy. In both cases, it stands for the human response to divine creation. Moreover, and somewhat less famously, it was also an epistemological concept in the religious

Introduction to Alexandre Kojève’s “Moscow, August 1957”

European perspective” . Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 29 ( 1 ): 91 - 94 . Filoni , Marco. 2021 . L'azione politica del filosofo: La vita e il pensiero di Alexandre Kojève . Turin: Bollati ... of Political Philosophy 29 ( 1 ): 115 - 128 . Kojève , Alexandre. 1945 . Outline of a doctrine of French policy . https://www.marxists.org/reference/ subject/philosophy/works/fr/kojeve2.htm. Accessed

German idealism and the early philosophy of S. L. Frank

This study argues that the early philosophy of Semyon Liudvigovich Frank (1877–1950) exhibits significant intellectual correlations with nineteenth century German Idealist philosophy. The idealists ... -1831) and F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854). It will be suggested that the critical tension of Frank's early philosophy is precisely a tension between his Hegelian and Schellingian tendencies. The paper will

Introduction to Alexandre Kojève, “On Creative Freedom and Souls’ Fabrication. Response to Professor N. A. Berdyaev.”

authority (including Stalinism) in The Notion of Authority ( Kojève 2004 ), this brief editorial serves to add an aesthetic or cultural dimension to Kojève’s political philosophy. The arts, including ... This text has been recently translated into English as Alexandre Kojève, “Philosophy and the Communist Party,” trans. Trevor Wilson, Radical Philosophy Introduction to Alexandre Kojève, “On Creative

Editorial: Celebrating the centennial of the RAS Institute of Philosophy

. The Institute’s history that largely traces the development of Russian philosophy in the Soviet period had been marked by a variety of ideological and political struggles producing many intellectual ... , philosophy—to some extent—still remained resistant to the rising political and ideological tensions, and some genuine activity within the discipline endured, although not for very long. The second period in

Marxism as Spinozism? One episode in the history of Soviet philosophy

fulfil this principle results in the dogmatization and instrumentalization of philosophy, and transforms it into political doctrine. The systematic principle concerns Bogdanov’s radical rethinking of the ... ) was accompanied by a struggle among different political, literal, artistic, and philosophical currents. In philosophy, we can observe the fierce debates that broke out among various schools and

Defining nothingness: Kazimir Malevich and religious renaissance

religious philosophy of the early twentieth century. In my view, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky—philosophers of “Religious Renaissance,” as well as some other intellectuals—acquaint avant ... treatise contains a large number of references to philosophers belonging to different traditions. A careful reading shows the extent to which Malevich's theory is linked to the Russian religious philosophy

The Name-glorifying projects of Alexei Losev and Pavel Florensky: A question of their historical interrelation

which were created in line with the Neo-Patristic movement in the Russian philosophy of the Silver Age. One of these papers is by Alexei Losev and the other by Pavel Florensky. In my opinion, there are ... , where another of Losev’s German-language articles, “Russian Philosophy”, was published ( Russland 1919 (/ 2010), S. 79–109). Aza and Elena Takho-Godi also speculate that this text by Losev could have

David Riazanov and the Leninist stage of Soviet Marxism

unacceptable to the Soviet regime, and why from 1924 Lenin was credited with being an outstanding Marxist theoretician, whereas previously he had been regarded only as a skilled political activist. The concept ... gimnaziia, from which he was expelled for his lack of progress in learning Greek. By diligent self-study, however, he was later to acquire a wide knowledge of history, philosophy, political economy, law, the

“Time is our litmus test”: the philosophical world of Valentin Asmus

Silver Age; in fact, their unique stature may be applicable beyond that Age. Asmus was born in the Russian Empire in 1894 and graduated from the philosophy department in Kyiv University (the department was ... Berdyaev's philosophy of creativity. The article's emotional anti-Marxist sentiment is also impressive. Yet ultimately, despite existing differences, Asmus decided against emigration. He continued his

Józef Tischner’s epistemology of “political reason” and the “ethics of truth”

philosophy. They are also interwoven in Józef Tischner’s philosophy. In Tischner’s thought, the description of this interweave and its consequences, as well as ways of dealing with it, are very inspiring. In ...  Political reason  Józef Tischner thoroughly analyzed the ethical problems arising out of man’s public involvement—hence his socio-political philosophy had a descriptive dimension. But Tischner also had

Ontologism in Soviet Philosophy: Some Remarks

late 1920s. It has been claimed that the “ontologizing” tendency in Soviet philosophy is due to the influence of Friedrich Engels and his ideas pertaining to the dialectics of nature. However, a more ... Soviet philosophy is connected with the rejection of the Kantian Copernican turn in philosophy and the idea of the primacy of gnoseology it implies. In this article, I argue in favor of the latter thesis

The interactions between literature and philosophy: a view from Russia

comprehension of the world could not develop in the form of philosophy, not only because of the lack of political freedom, strict censorship, etc., but also because of the peculiarities of Russian life, which for ... Sciences , 25a Povarskaya St., Moscow , Russia 121069 Scholars are increasingly aware today of what may be called a “conflicting interference” between the methods of philology and philosophy, the pendulum

What is to be done? In the age of ignorance

This paper is dedicated to the issue of collective guilt and the interconnection between theoretical political thinking and ethically grounded political action, collective guilt, and personal ... interconnection between irrational and rational ways of interpretation of political conflict is shown together with the attempt to rethink the social responsibility of nowadays, switching the prospective from

Some notes on The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought

are self-contained presentations of a wide range of issues in Russian history of philosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, literature, art, etc. Therefore, The ... my comments on The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought at the ASEEES convention (Chicago, November 2022). Recent years have been very fruitful for the study of Russian religious philosophy. In 2020