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100 years GAKhN: Artistic Research between Art and Science. Reconsidering the Practice of the State Academy of Artistic Research (1921-1930)

The special issue presents a singular institution of Russian scientific and cultural history – the State Academy of Artistic Research (GAKhN), which was founded in Moscow 100 years ago (1921). The contributi...

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100 years of Evald Ilyenkov

This special issue commemorates the centenary of the philosopher Evald Ilyenkov (1924-1979). Ilyenkov provided a creative counter-current to the stagnation of Soviet thought, focusing on topics including act...

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Alexandre Kojève and Russian Philosophy

An extraordinarily influential figure in the history of twentieth-century thought, the Russo-French philosopher and statesman Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) is widely regarded as having guided postwar philosop...

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Dostoevsky in the World Today

Guest Editor Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Monash University, Australia, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover Description In view of the strong geopolitical divisions in contemporary cultural narratives, which affect percep...

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Key Figures in the Field

This series features original articles by authors who have distinguished themselves in their scholarly accomplishments and whose exceptional contributions to studies in Eastern European thought and its popul...

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Marian Zdziechowski: Between Affirmation and Critique Of Russian Culture

Marian Zdziechowski (1861-1938) was a Polish thinker deeply but critically engaged in Russian religious philosophy. Born in Belarus, he studied literature in Russia, and taught philosophy in Krakow and Vilni...

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Personhood and Metaphysics: The Life and Thought of Lev Karsavin

Lev Platonovich Karsavin (1882–1952), a follower of Vladimir Solovyov’s metaphysics of unity, was a prominent Russian religious philosopher, Eurasianist, and personalist. His Lithuanian period represents a l...

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Philosophy in Neopatristics: New Figures and New Interpretations

This Special Issue is dedicated to one the most influential movements in contemporary Eastern Christian thought known as Neopatristics and is aimed at the reintroduction and revival of patristic approach in ...

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Russian Conservatism

Russian conservatism has a venerable tradition whose proximate origins can be traced to the nationalist Slavophile movement of the nineteenth century. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the rich...

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Russia’s War in Ukraine: When Barbarism Takes Over Civilization

This Special Issue provides a critical assessment of the current Russia/Ukraine war by putting it into the broader context of early and recent history of Russian events and ideas. The issue examines historic...

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The Reception of Existentialist Philosophy in Eastern European Countries under Socialism

The articles gathered in this special issue address the reception, critique and appropriation of existentialist philosophies in the Eastern Bloc from complementary thematic and methodological perspectives. W...

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Valentin Asmus and Soviet Philosophy

Valentin Asmus (1894–1975) was regarded as one of the most prominent Soviet historians of philosophy, a logician, aesthete, literary scholar and educator. In 1937, Asmus, a professor at Moscow State Universi...

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