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Materialist Dialectics in Capital and Wu
This chapter makes a sketch of Marx’s dialectical method in Capital. The chapter explores the materialist metaphysical implications of Marx’s...
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The Encyclopaedia of Poor Life in Platonov’s Proletarian Literature
This chapter traces the encyclopaedic structure of Platonov’s literary and theoretical legacy. It examines novels and the groups of texts that...
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What Is The Arcades Project?
This chapter we attempts to reconstruct the stages of the work on Benjamin’s Paris Passages, highlighting the various phases and changes in the...
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Ivan A. Ilyin: Russia’s “Non-Hegelian” Hegelian
This chapter discusses two of Ilyin’s major philosophical works (the only two available in English translation): The Philosophy of Hegel as a...
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Engels’ Co-option of Lenin
The divergence between Marx and Lenin is best illustrated by their antithetical visions of “the higher stage of communism.” Lenin’s image of “the...
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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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After the Ball: Appraisals of Leo Tolstoy by the theorists at the State Academy for the Study of Arts and Mikhail Bakhtin in the year of “The Great Turn”
This paper will focus on the discussion of Tolstoy’s ideas in the late 1920s, right after the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth, by the State...
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Spinoza and Tolstoy in Valentin Asmus’ comparative analysis
The paper investigates the dependence of Leo Tolstoy’s ethical, religious and political ideas on Benedict Spinoza’s philosophy. The Soviet...
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The October Revolution and End of the “Great War”: Lenin versus Wilson
Max Weber was prescient when he wrote in 1905 about the prospects for the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty in Russia: “Only in the tragic event of a...
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1934: The All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers of 1934
This chapter’s attempt to define Documentary is not based on an individual cinéaste who posed the question: “What is ‘F’”? Likewise, the chapter’s...
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The Argument from Global Heating
Global heating threatens to kill off human civilization and perhaps, in turn, humanity. And yet we continue with our emissions of greenhouse gases....
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Building a Mind-Inspired Society
Building a Mind-inspired Society. Off-site economic awareness belongs to the Sociality Brain mind-inspired in the Dual-Brain world and the awareness...
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Zdziechowski’s distinctiveness: on the distinctive differences between Marian Zdziechowski’s thought and the Russian Renaissance
The article is a comparative analysis of the philosophy of the Russian Religious Renaissance and the views of Marian Zdziechowski (1861–1938), a...
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Deciphering Soviet philosophical forewords: an attentive reading of V.F. Asmus
The article investigates the issue and the mechanisms of censorship and self-censorship in Soviet philosophy. The major forms of censorship are...
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The “Men of the Sixties”: Philosophy as a Social Phenomenon
This chapter examines a renewal of philosophy in the Soviet Union in the late twentieth century that has become known as the “men of the sixties”...
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Utopia and the Parallax View
Žižek’s Parallax View is probably one of his most misunderstood “major works.” He posits that there are fundamentally different metaphysical...
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Christian Philosophy as a Philosophy of Crisis: Re-reading Florensky in the Twenty-First Century
Clemena Antonova brings the highly original thinking of the Russian polymath, Pavel Florensky, to bear on the looming sense of social and political...
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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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What Can Contemporary Realists Learn from Montaigne? On the Significance of the Author of the Essais for Michael Oakeshott and Raymond Geuss
This essay considers the significance of the sixteenth century essayist Michel de Montaigne for Michael Oakeshott and Raymond Geuss: twentieth...