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Syntax and temporality in the photographic thinking of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Bruno Schulz Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Olena Bystrova
This article examines stylistic and linguistic aspects of photographic thinking in the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Bruno Schulz. The analysis is framed by the insights of Western and Ukrainian theorists of the image. The development of photo technologies anticipates photographic thinking as an aesthetic phenomenon. Photographic thinking is embodied in the specific artistic and imaginative reflection
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Georges Florovsky on nuclear restraint and responsibility: introduction to Florovsky’s letter Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Teresa Obolevitch
This article presents the context of Georges Florovsky’s letter to Davis McCaughey. The creation of the atomic bomb and the philosophical and theological challenges it caused are also presented. The content of the Report The Era of Atomic Power: of a Commission, which was initiated by the British Council of Churches, and McCaughey’s participation in its writing, are presented as well. Finally, Florovsky’s
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Georges Florovsky: Letter to Davis McCaughey Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Georges Florovsky, Teresa Obolevitch
The letter from Georges Florovsky to Davis McCaughey is a reflection after reading the Report The Era of Atomic Power: Report of a Commission (1946). Florovsky gives his own arguments against the development of research concerning nuclear weapons and their use. These include: treating an attempt at a technical transformation of the world as a human claim to put oneself in God’s place, i.e., to be a
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Russian pseudo-conservatism in an international context Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Alexey Zhavoronkov
This paper presents a short analysis of the so-called ‘conservative turn’ in contemporary Russia. This ‘turn’ is examined in the context of the previous development of Russian conservatism, particularly its degradation into imitational bureaucratic conservatism in the second half of the nineteenth century. I argue that this ‘new conservatism’ in contemporary Russian politics reflects this degradation
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The role of gossip and money in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Insulted and Injured, The Idiot and Evdokiia Rostopchina’s “Rank and Money” («Chiny i Den’gi» (1838)) Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Natalya Khokholova
Money and gossip in nineteenth-century Russian fiction act as combined forces that disrupt the narrative and the relationships between the main characters. The motifs of money are prominent in the novels of both major and minor Russian writers and when seen side by side, the function of the motifs of money becomes clear as a genre marker. The two writers discussed in this paper are Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Well, go, love Ivan!”: Ivan Karamazov unveiled and the “Pro and Contra” debate revisited Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Shudi Yang
In his direct comments on The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky only refers to Book V (“Pro and Contra”) and VI (“The Russian Monk”) as the novel’s culminating points. These two Books, notoriously polemical, constitute a debate provoked by the representative of Contra values, Ivan Karamazov, who seeks responses from the “Pros.” This paper comes to support a more sophisticated reading of the Pros’
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The phenomenology of human existence movement: worldliness, transcendence, and responsibility Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Junguo Zhang
Jan Patočka starts the phenomenology of existence movement as a response to the crisis brought about by modern technology. This movement aims to liberate both humanity and the world from the absolute dominance of technologism, while addressing the spiritual crisis faced by human beings. Patočka offers a new phenomenological perspective on human existence, viewing it as a continuous movement. He emphasizes
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Roman Witold Ingarden’s discussions on artistic style: A contribution Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Beata Garlej
The present article attempts to reconstruct Polish philosopher and aesthetician Roman Witold Ingarden’s views concerning his understanding of the concept of artistic style. Starting from the hypotheses provided by the content of the outline of his ultimately unwritten work, Poetics, I have chosen selected threads of the discussions held by Ingarden in Lviv before the war, supplemented by the content
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Revolt against modernity? Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Ilia Budraitskis
In this article, the author reveals the question of the relationship between the political concepts of “conservatism” and “reaction,” their evolution in the historical context, as well as the special place of conservatism in the Russian political tradition.
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The finite subject and reflection in Jan Patočka Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Marco Barcaro
How should we conceive of the relationship between finite subjectivity and reflection? And what implications does this have for the phenomenological method? This article addresses these questions by reconstructing the main pillars of Patočka’s theory of the subject. I present three of Patočka’s key arguments related to finitude, consciousness, and the world (the primacy of the sum, the reduction to
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Observing logics: revisiting reason in The Brothers Karamazov Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Eric Kim
Very often in frameworks for and presentations of The Brothers Karamazov, the modern reading public attempts to divide characters by their ability to reason. Usually Ivan is remembered for his reason, pitted against Dmitri’s passion. Adapting some terminology from mathematical logic, I propose and trace a different approach to reason in Dostoevsky’s text, to recast its canonical characters into alternative
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On the legitimacy of conservative ideology Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Alberto Toscano
This roundtable contribution explores the ideological contours of the contemporary far-Right, and whether it can be subsumed under our existing frameworks for understanding conservatism.
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Evald Ilyenkov and the enactive approach Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Kyrill Potapov
There is a growing interest in Evald Ilyenkov’s work and its significance for contemporary debates. This interest spans several disciplines. One key thread in Ilyenkov’s ideas concerns a perspective on the relation between biology and psychology. In rejecting crude reductionism and individualism, Ilyenkov put forward a view of mind and personhood as emerging from activity and social practice. In his
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Zdziechowski, Masaryk and Russian philosophy Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Hanuš Nykl
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Marian Zdziechowski are well-known personalities from the Czech and Polish cultural environments, respectively. Their lives and work had many parallels, one of which was their interest in Russia and Russian thought. In their time, they were unique connoisseurs of Russian philosophy. This article tries to insightfully compare their attitudes regarding this field. It first
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The generation and suspension of meaning in Dostoevsky’s Demons Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Satoshi Bamba
This paper examines the relationship between the generation and suspension of meaning in Dostoevsky’s Demons with reference to Bakhtin’s thesis that one’s meaning is defined by someone else’s answer. By generation I mean both the generational conflict between fathers and children and the generative power of language. It is the division between what one says and what one means that troubles Stavrogin
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A fallible narrator and an inscrutable object: desire as structure in Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 James Phillips
This article argues that one of the means by which Dostoevsky achieves polyphony in the limited point-of-view narration of The Eternal Husband (1870) is through the tension between the character Velchaninov’s overt aversion and his subterranean attraction to Trusotsky, the cuckold of the title. While Trusotsky is more forthright in expressing his love for Velchaninov and has thus previously raised
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Bergson’s Fundamental Intuition Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Semyon L. Frank, Frédéric Tremblay
The following text is a translation of Semyon Frank’s “L’intuition fondamentale de Bergson” published in Henri Bergson: Essais et témoignages inédits, edited by Albert Béguin and Pierre Thévenaz, Neuchâtel: Éditions de la Baconnière, 1941. In this article, Frank addresses Bergson’s notion of intuition, his anti-intellectualism, his mysticism, his closeness to Lebensphilosophie, the notion of lived
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Zdziechowski’s distinctiveness: on the distinctive differences between Marian Zdziechowski’s thought and the Russian Renaissance Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Sławomir Mazurek
The article is a comparative analysis of the philosophy of the Russian Religious Renaissance and the views of Marian Zdziechowski (1861–1938), a Polish religious thinker, historian of ideas, and historian of literature. Zdziechowski was also an expert on and promoter of Russian religious thought. As a thinker, he was influenced by it and attempted to cope with the same problems that were plaguing the
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The problem of subjectivity in the works of Evald Ilyenkov and Slavoj Žižek Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Natalya Listratenko
This article deals with the theme of subjectivity. One of the most pressing questions today is what theoretical and practical efforts should be made to avoid being a powerless tool in the hands of others and under what conditions one’s own “subjective opinion” becomes the real, reliable fulcrum as far as purposeful activity, free and reasonable goal-setting are concerned. The desire to derive subjectivity
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Towards understanding the nature of theology in the thought of Frs. S. N. Bulgakov, G. V. Florovsky and the Venerable Sophrony Sakharov Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Tikhon Vasilyev
This paper focuses on what can be said to be the definitive features of the approach to theology by three Russian theologians: Fathers Sergii Bulgakov and Georges Florovsky as well as the Venerable Father Sophrony Sakharov. The article argues that the following common themes characterize the nature of their theology. First, personalism, in other words, the use of the term “person”, which they extensively
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Religion in Alexandre Kojève’s atheistic philosophy of science Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Ivan Sergeevich Kurilovich
This paper focuses on Kojève’s account of history and philosophy of science. Kojève’s understanding of science can be characterized as internalism, which is evident in his holistic view of philosophy, theology, quantum physics, and the history of classical Newtonian mechanics. It precipitates the facilitation of a further inquiry into the Christian genesis, secular evolution, and subsequent de-Christianization
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“The Polish question” in the correspondence of Prince Evgenii Nikolaevitch Troubetzkoy and Marian Zdziechowski Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Gennadii Aliaiev
The paper analyzes the correspondence between Prince Evgenii Troubetzkoy and Marian Zdziechowski, from 1905–1916 (not yet published). The correspondence focuses on the question of Russian-Polish relations and the possibility of Poland’s autonomy within the Russian Empire or the restoration of Poland’s independence. With the clarification of these two thinkers’ positions on the “Polish question,” the
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Ukraine, language policies and liberalism: a mixed second act Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Joseph Place, Judas Everett
This article analyses Ukraine’s language policies from 2002 to 2022 within a framework of liberalism, while avoiding making normative judgements or recommendations, updating the discussion raised in Kymlicka and Opalski’s Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported? The analysis takes into consideration Ukraine’s present and historic position, including the challenge that postcolonial nation building can pose
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Evald Ilyenkov’s legacy in Ukraine Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Serhii Alushkin, Vasyl Pikhorovich
This article is dedicated to the philosophical legacy of Evald Ilyenkov in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine. The authors use the example of Ilyenkov and his legacy to show how drastically different the philosophical situation was in Soviet Ukraine in order to present a holistic viewpoint on Soviet philosophy. The authors highlight the differences between the political and philosophical circumstances
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The Different Senses of the Word Intuition Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Nikolai O. Lossky, Frédéric Tremblay
This is a translation from Bulgarian into English of Nikolai Lossky’s “Razlichniiat smisul na dumata intuitsiia” (“The Different Senses of the Word Intuition”), published in the Sofianite journal Filosofski pregled (Philosophical Review), 1931, year III, book 1, pp. 1–9. In this article, solicited by the journal’s editor-in-chief, the Bulgarian philosopher Dimitar Mihalchev, Lossky surveys the different
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Ilyenkov and Vygotsky on imagination Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 David Bakhurst
This paper explores Ilyenkov’s conception of imagination as it is expressed in his writings on aesthetics and in his 1968 book Ob idolakh i idealakh (Of Idols and Ideals). Ilyenkov deemed imagination and creativity to be central to the character of distinctively human forms of mental activity. After examining the many different contexts in which Ilyenkov sees imagination at work—from the most basic
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Moral philosophy in the USSR: key trends of change Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ruben Apressyan
Ethics in the USSR revived in the middle of the twentieth century after more than twenty years of silence. The impetus for the development of research and teaching in this area was given by the supreme power, which considered ethics as one of the more effective tools of state propaganda, corresponding to the new social realities. But pretty soon, the very logic of research immersion in the subject
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Analytic patristics Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Paweł Rojek
Georges Florovsky, in 1936, called for a revival of the teaching of the Church Fathers. At the same time, Fr. Joseph Bocheński formulated the program for the renewal of Thomism by means of formal logic. In this paper, I propose to integrate these two projects. Analytic Patristics aims at expressing and developing patristic thought with the tools of analytic philosophy. The broad program of the logic
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Pessimism, Schopenhauer, and Schopenhauerianism in nineteenth century Romania. The case of the poet Mihai Eminescu Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Ştefan Bolea, Ştefan-Sebastian Maftei
This article discusses the influence that Schopenhauer’s thought had on Mihai Eminescu’s work with reference to the idea of “pessimism.” It also considers Schopenhauer’s influence on Romanian philosophy and literature at the end of the nineteenth century. We shall examine Eminescu’s alleged “Schopenhauerian pessimism,” considering firstly “pessimism” as a part of Eminescu’s “myth.” Secondly, we shall
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Translation of Evald Ilyenkov, “Notes on Wagner” Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Evald Ilyenkov, Isabel Jacobs
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Introduction to Evald Ilyenkov, “Notes on Wagner” Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Isabel Jacobs
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The theological program of Fr. Georges Florovsky from the Russian perspective Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Petr B. Mikhaylov
The theological program of Archpriest Georges Florovsky is understood as a conception of the neopatristic synthesis that he developed. From the beginning, its appearance was associated with the participation of its creator in a public discussion about the historical ways of Russia within the framework of the Eurasian movement, then, with his scientific investigations into the history of Russian Orthodoxy
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Two types of Orthodox theological personalism: Vasily Zenkovsky and Vladimir Lossky Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Konstantin M. Matsan
The article attempts to compare personalist aspects in the works of Vasily Zenkovsky and Vladimir Lossky. It is shown that two types of philosophical personalism (metaphysical and existentialist) in the history of Russian thought set the framework for two types of theological personalism presented respectively by Zenkovsky and Lossky. The philosophy of Lev Lopatin was the important source for the principles
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Alexander Scriabin as a Russian Cosmist Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Ali Yansori
In the secondary literature on Scriabin, it is not uncommon to come across the names of philosophers such as Nikolai Fyodorov, Vladimir Solovyov, and Nikolai Berdyaev. The present paper examines the shared characteristics between Scriabin’s philosophy and the ideas of such figures who are typically referred to as Russian Cosmists. In doing so, the paper illustrates what new insights we can gain by
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Nikolai Lossky, Dimitar Mihalchev, and Rehmkeanism Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Frédéric Tremblay
The philosophy of Johannes Rehmke (1848–1930), also called “Rehmkeanism,” and the intuitivism of Nikolai Lossky (1870–1965) converge on essential doctrinal points. The Bulgarian philosopher Dimitar Mihalchev (1880–1967), who studied under Rehmke in Greifswald, became a promoter of the Rehmkean philosophy in Bulgaria. The points of convergence between Rehmkeanism and Losskyan intuitivism led Mihalchev
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Russian philosophy and the question of its exceptional nature Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Marina F. Bykova
This essay addresses one of the most concerning features of Russian thought: its claim to exceptionality. The author contends that the notion of Russian distinctiveness and exceptionality has reverberated consistently throughout Russian intellectual discussions. In contemporary Russia, these debates have heightened, often taking on a distinctly political character. The essay highlights the perilous
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Wholeness and totalitarianism Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Vladimir Marchenkov
This brief paper is a polemical response to Mikhail Epstein’s review of the Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought, and especially to his claim that the widely acknowledged tendency of Russian philosophy towards holistic thinking is akin to political totalitarianism, not to say its underlying cause. My argument is that philosophical and political or ideological thought are fundamentally different in
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Rethinking The Philosophers’ Steamboat: the tragedy of Sergei Bulgakov Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Olga Lyanda-Geller
Among those included in the lists of being sent out in 1922 as part of the “Philosophers’ Steamboat,” there was Sergei Nikolayevich (Father Sergius) Bulgakov (1871–1944). Prior to his deportation, Bulgakov, after many years of struggle, reunited his philosophical and theological journeys. This is reflected in his dialogues and essays, in particular, in At the Feast of the Gods and At the Walls of Chersonesus
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Georges Florovsky and St. Justin Popović: brothers in arms for the Neopatristic synthesis Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Vladimir Cvetković
The aim of this paper is to offer an overview of the long-lasting friendship between Georges Florovsky and St. Justin Popović, as well as their common project to build an Orthodox theological synthesis on the basis of the patristic tradition. The paper focuses on three periods from Florovsky’s and Popović’s lives, from late 1910 to early 1920, from the late 1920s to late 1930s, and finally into the
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Vratislav Effenberger’s conception of the role of imagination in ideological thought Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Šimon Wikstrøm Svěrák
This paper explores the core characteristics of Vratislav Effenberger’s theoretical system, highlighting his perspective on the significance of imagination in ideological thinking. It provides background and an overview of Effenberger’s concept of ideology, outlines the Surrealist notion of imagination, and presents the author’s methodological connection of Surrealism, psychoanalysis, and Prague Structuralism
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Nicholas Afanasiev and his neo-patristic approach Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Daniel Kisliakov
As part of the work to “transcend the dichotomy” of the “two schools” of the Russian Religious Renaissance, the study of individual theologians reveals different approaches to theological synthesis. The present paper is a study of Nicholas Afanasiev’s patristic engagement and the specifics of his approach to neo-patristics. Two ecclesiological conceptions emerged as consistent themes in his work: eucharistic
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Bulgakov’s sophiology and the neopatristic synthesis Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Josephien H. J. van Kessel
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 philosophy steamer: Lenin and the exile of the intelligensia (2006) Atlantic Books). The exiled philosophers tried to go on with their previous professional lives in cities as Prague, Berlin and Paris.
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Politics, power, and bureaucracy through the lens of the conceptological approach: reflections on Viktor P. Makarenko, Sobranie sochineniy v 5 tomakh [Collected Works in 5 vols.]. Rostov-na-Donu; Taganrog: Izdatel’stvo Yuzhnogo Federal’nogo Universiteta, 2021 Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Sergey G. Chukin
Historical experience shows that politics, despite all its shortcomings, is the best tool created by people to organize the common life of large groups of the population and manage them. Therefore, the desire of thinkers of all times and peoples to obtain knowledge about politics is understandable, which, in its rigor, clarity, and accuracy of forecast, would be comparable to scientific knowledge.
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De-imperializing Joseph Brodsky: “On the independence of Ukraine” and other poems Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Andrei Desnitsky
This article discusses the poem written by Joseph Brodsky shortly after the proclamation of Ukrainian independence in the early 1990s. It compares this poem with other pieces by the same author that deal with the paradigm of “independence vs. imperial unity.” These poems present a difference, which is striking at first glance: Brodsky welcomes Lithuanian independence, while simultaneously denying the
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Natalie Duddington and perceptual knowledge of other minds Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Harry James Moore
This paper concerns the Russian émigrée translator and philosopher Natalie Duddington (1886–1972). By establishing Duddington’s dependence on Nicholas Lossky (1870–1965), the paper argues that Duddington formed a unique synthesis of Russian intuitivism and British realism in her essay ‘Our Knowledge of Other Minds’. Despite the historical significance of Duddington’s work, it will be concluded that
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False contradiction: a critique of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental dialectic in the Kantian thought of Valentin Asmus Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Diana Gasparyan
Valentin Asmus made a significant contribution to the formation of key interpretations, analyses and evaluations of Immanuel Kant’s work in the Russian-Soviet tradition of studying the “history of foreign philosophy”. This article shows precisely which principles and developmental models Asmus laid down in his interpretation of the transcendental dialectic section of Kant’s philosophical system. The
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Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Shestov on Dostoevsky: the unfinalized dialogue Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Marina G. Ogden
Bakhtin’s view of the history of the novel, through the lens of Dostoevsky’s writing in his famous study on Dostoevsky’s poetics (1963), has had a significant impact on the way we read Dostoevsky today. On the other hand, Shestov’s original explorations of the human soul, which were drawn on his reading of Dostoevsky and made a lasting impression on his contemporaries, are still relatively unknown
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Robert Saudek’s graphology in the light of Fritz Mauthner’s critique of language Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Jakub Mácha
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The ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment in Russia: Adam Smith and Semyon Efimovich Desnitskii on the philosophy of history Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Ondrej Marchevský, Sandra Zákutná
The paper focuses on the mutual interaction as well as the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on the formation of the Enlightenment in Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. It focuses on the relationship between the work of Adam Smith and Semyon Efimovich Desnitskii, who, thanks to Desnitskii’s studies at the University of Glasgow, got to know each other as teacher and student. The central
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Towards the future of Orthodox theology: Bulgakov and cyborg enhancement technology Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Walter N. Sisto
The relationship between the Sophiology of Sergius Bulgakov and the neo-patristic movement within Orthodoxy is well-known. The neo-patristic synthesis won the day, and it is the dominant theological tradition within Orthodoxy. It is time for a serious reappraisal of Bulgakov’s theology by the Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christian theologians because Christian theology is faced with a looming bioethical
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The concept of creativity in Georges Florovsky’s thought Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kåre Johan Mjør
This article discusses the meanings of “creativity”—tvorchestvo—as we encounter it in Georges Florovsky’s thought, first and foremost in his magnum opus Ways of Russian Theology (1937). Tvorchestvo 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 Bulgakov’s
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Introduction to Alexandre Kojève’s “Moscow, August 1957” Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Isabel Jacobs
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The paradoxical anchoring of Kojève’s philosophizing in the tradition of Russian religious philosophy Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Annett Jubara
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 one hand, and the hidden, 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
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Defining nothingness: Kazimir Malevich and religious renaissance Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Tatiana Levina
In the treatise “Suprematism. The World as Objectlessness or Eternal Peace” (1922), Kazimir Malevich positions himself as a “bookless philosopher” who did not consider theories of other philosophers. In fact, the 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
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Florovsky’s logical relativism: a philosophical and theological analysis Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Harry James Moore
Georges Florovsky’s essay ‘On the Grounding of Logical Relativism’ has attracted attention from various theologians and students of Russian thought but has until now avoided a serious philosophical analysis and critique. The complex but thought-provoking essay presents Florovsky’s so-called logical relativism, a position which he seemed to maintain for the rest of his career. This paper will show that
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Sergius Bulgakov and his “neo-patristic” lens Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Daniel Kisliakov
The conception of the neo-patristic, despite its notional meaning being self-evident, continues to confound scholars in its specific detail. In this regard, a question of interest concerns the relationship between Fr. Sergius Bulgakov and neo-patristics. Conventional wisdom posits that Bulgakov ascribed to the “Russian school” with a philosophically-oriented approach to theology, whose interest in
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The Name-glorifying projects of Alexei Losev and Pavel Florensky: A question of their historical interrelation Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Dmitry Biriukov
This article deals with the question of the interrelation between two papers, both called, in short, “Onomatodoxy”, dedicated to the doctrine of Name-glorification (Imiaslavie, Onomatodoxy), both of 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
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What is the truth of the ridiculous man? The question of the ‘difference’ in Dostoevsky’s dream Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Andrea Oppo
The critical studies on Dostoevsky’s ‘The Dream of a Ridiculous Man’ have never diverged to a very great extent from the two interpretative lines developed many years ago by Mikhail Bakhtin and Nikolai Berdyaev, which concern, on the one hand, the Menippean satirical structure of this short story and, on the other, its general motif of ‘utopia vs. anti-utopia.’ Although these two views are unquestionably
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Alexandre Kojève’s photography: some reflections Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Dmitry Tokarev
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Valentin Asmus’s historico-philosophical articles in the journal “Pod znamenem marksizma”: between philosophy and ideology Studies in East European Thought (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Elena V. Besschetnova
The article discusses the original critical dialectical approach of the Soviet philosopher Valentin F. Asmus. His publications on the heritage of Western philosophical thought in the journal Pod znamenem marksizma are examples of this approach. In the 1920s and 1930s, Asmus published a number of articles analyzing a variety of the ideas developed by Western European philosophers: “An Advocate for Philosophical