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Stalin with Kant or Hegel?
Alexandre Kojève declared himself a Stalinist. This declaration has puzzled his own students from the inter-war period and many later commentators....
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Kant and Kantianism in Russia: A Historical Overview
This chapter provides a brief history of Kantianism in Russia since the late eighteenth century and identifies the main themes of Kantianism in...
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Reception of Emil Lask’s philosophy in Russia
The acquaintance with significant philosophical doctrines emerging in the West has been a systematic process in the leading Russian-language...
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The ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment in Russia: Adam Smith and Semyon Efimovich Desnitskii on the philosophy of history
The paper focuses on the mutual interaction as well as the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on the formation of the Enlightenment in Russia...
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Non-institutional Philosophizing in Russia: the 1990s - 2020 (a Research Review)
The author presents a review of research literature on the analysis of the sphere of informal philosophizing in Russia of the last thirty years. He...
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False contradiction: a critique of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental dialectic in the Kantian thought of Valentin Asmus
Valentin Asmus made a significant contribution to the formation of key interpretations, analyses and evaluations of Immanuel Kant’s work in the...
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A way out of hell: Dante and the philosophy of personal salvation in post-Soviet Russia
This article examines the transformation of Dante’s image in post-Soviet scholarship. The author shows how Russian philologists Vladimir Bibikhin,...
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Kant, Race and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
In this chapter I will demonstrate how Kant’s theory of race switches to the pragmatic understanding of the notion of the “Charakteristik.” The...
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Reasons Examined in Good Conscience
For Nicolas Malebranche, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant, courage is the strength of a man’s mind searching for truth and willingly submitting to laws...
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The Different Senses of the Word Intuition
This is a translation from Bulgarian into English of Nikolai Lossky’s “Razlichniiat smisul na dumata intuitsiia” (“The Different Senses of the Word...
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Russia
This chapter investigates Hegel’s impact on nineteenth-century German thought by reference to the question of freedom that so preoccupied...
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Thinking in circles: Kojève and Russian Hegelianism
This paper analyzes Russian-French philosopher Alexandre Kojève’s dialogue with proponents of Hegelianism and phenomenology in Soviet Russia of the...
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Research and Use of Nuclear Energy—Its Ambivalence(s) in Historical Context
The discovery of a scientific fact is initially not ambivalent; only in its possibilities of use does its ambivalence become apparent. But the...
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Merab Mamardashvili and Immanuel Kant: a dialogue on transcendental consciousness and moral responsibility
Mamardashvili always engaged in a dialogue with thinkers of the past, particularly with those philosophers whom he considered to have founded the...
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Rethinking The Philosophers’ Steamboat: the tragedy of Sergei Bulgakov
Among those included in the lists of being sent out in 1922 as part of the “Philosophers’ Steamboat,” there was Sergei Nikolayevich (Father Sergius)...
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Nikolai Lossky, Dimitar Mihalchev, and Rehmkeanism
The philosophy of Johannes Rehmke (1848–1930), also called “Rehmkeanism,” and the intuitivism of Nikolai Lossky (1870–1965) converge on essential...
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Alexandre Kojève: revolution and terror
When discussing the French Revolution and Napoleon in his lectures from 1933 to 1939, Alexandre Kojève had in mind events in Russia. The clash...
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The Argument from War and Peace
Unless a world government is established, there will be war in the world. If a world government is established, with a monopoly on the use of...
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Valentin Asmus’s first book in émigré and in Soviet criticism in the 1920s
This article covers Valentin Asmus’s first book Dialectical Materialism and Logic and response thereto among émigré and Soviet intellectuals. The...