Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09599-x
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 their nature and purpose, and cannot be usefully identified with one another as Epstein does. Epstein’s claim is, I argue, a manifestation of the modern outlook at large, incapable of grasping the difference and, worse, offering precisely the opposite of a solution to the problems posed by totalitarianism.
这篇简短的文章是对米哈伊尔·爱泼斯坦(Mikhail Epstein)对《帕尔格雷夫俄罗斯思想手册》(Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought)的评论的一种论战性回应,尤其是对他所声称的俄罗斯哲学普遍承认的整体思维倾向类似于政治极权主义的观点的回应,更不用说其根本原因了。我的观点是,哲学思想和政治思想或意识形态思想在本质和目的上是根本不同的,不能像爱泼斯坦那样有效地相互认同。我认为,爱泼斯坦的说法总体上是现代观点的一种表现,无法把握其中的区别,更糟糕的是,它提供的解决方案与极权主义带来的问题恰恰相反。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09599-x
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 their nature and purpose, and cannot be usefully identified with one another as Epstein does. Epstein’s claim is, I argue, a manifestation of the modern outlook at large, incapable of grasping the difference and, worse, offering precisely the opposite of a solution to the problems posed by totalitarianism.
这篇简短的文章是对米哈伊尔·爱泼斯坦(Mikhail Epstein)对《帕尔格雷夫俄罗斯思想手册》(Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought)的评论的一种论战性回应,尤其是对他所声称的俄罗斯哲学普遍承认的整体思维倾向类似于政治极权主义的观点的回应,更不用说其根本原因了。我的观点是,哲学思想和政治思想或意识形态思想在本质和目的上是根本不同的,不能像爱泼斯坦那样有效地相互认同。我认为,爱泼斯坦的说法总体上是现代观点的一种表现,无法把握其中的区别,更糟糕的是,它提供的解决方案与极权主义带来的问题恰恰相反。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09596-0
Yuki Fukui
{"title":"Review of Natasha Grigorian, Visions of the Future: Malthusian Thought Experiments in Russian Literature (1840–1960), Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2023, 134 pages, Hardback: ISBN 979-8-887190-55-6, $129.00","authors":"Yuki Fukui","doi":"10.1007/s11212-023-09596-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09596-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43055,"journal":{"name":"Studies in East European Thought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135390558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09593-3
Olga Lyanda-Geller
{"title":"Rethinking The Philosophers’ Steamboat: the tragedy of Sergei Bulgakov","authors":"Olga Lyanda-Geller","doi":"10.1007/s11212-023-09593-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09593-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43055,"journal":{"name":"Studies in East European Thought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135390331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09588-0
Vladimir Cvetković
{"title":"Georges Florovsky and St. Justin Popović: brothers in arms for the Neopatristic synthesis","authors":"Vladimir Cvetković","doi":"10.1007/s11212-023-09588-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09588-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43055,"journal":{"name":"Studies in East European Thought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136262198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09594-2
Šimon Wikstrøm Svěrák
{"title":"Vratislav Effenberger’s conception of the role of imagination in ideological thought","authors":"Šimon Wikstrøm Svěrák","doi":"10.1007/s11212-023-09594-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09594-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43055,"journal":{"name":"Studies in East European Thought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136376379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09587-1
Josephien H. J. van Kessel
Abstract 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. The St. Serge Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, founded by, among others, Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), became the new center of Russian religious philosophy and theology in Europe. Soon, however, the community of immigrant Russian religious philosophers and theologians was divided by conflicting opinions, and fell apart in various brotherhoods and movements. An important conflict was the so-called Sophia controversy: the Brotherhood of St. Photius , which included Vladimir Lossky (1903–1958), as well as the famous spokesman of the Neopatristic Synthesis, Fr. Georges Florovsky (1893–1979), attacked the Brotherhood of St. Sophia , which included the above mentioned Bulgakov. His Sophiology, or study of Sophia, Divine Wisdom, was accused of heresy on the instigation of Florovsky and Lossky. From this Sophia controversy, the Neopatristic Synthesis emerged as the dominant school of Russian Orthodox Theology, whereas Sophiology fell practically into oblivion. This article will attempt to answer the question whether there is still room for a re-valuation of the sophiological stance in Orthodox theology through a survey of recent literature on the subject. The article will conclude the affirmative: namely, that the controversy is shown to be the result of a conflict between generations and the necessity to empower their Orthodox identity in emigration, rather than the result of intrinsic philosophical or theological differences.
{"title":"Bulgakov’s sophiology and the neopatristic synthesis","authors":"Josephien H. J. van Kessel","doi":"10.1007/s11212-023-09587-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09587-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract 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. The St. Serge Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, founded by, among others, Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), became the new center of Russian religious philosophy and theology in Europe. Soon, however, the community of immigrant Russian religious philosophers and theologians was divided by conflicting opinions, and fell apart in various brotherhoods and movements. An important conflict was the so-called Sophia controversy: the Brotherhood of St. Photius , which included Vladimir Lossky (1903–1958), as well as the famous spokesman of the Neopatristic Synthesis, Fr. Georges Florovsky (1893–1979), attacked the Brotherhood of St. Sophia , which included the above mentioned Bulgakov. His Sophiology, or study of Sophia, Divine Wisdom, was accused of heresy on the instigation of Florovsky and Lossky. From this Sophia controversy, the Neopatristic Synthesis emerged as the dominant school of Russian Orthodox Theology, whereas Sophiology fell practically into oblivion. This article will attempt to answer the question whether there is still room for a re-valuation of the sophiological stance in Orthodox theology through a survey of recent literature on the subject. The article will conclude the affirmative: namely, that the controversy is shown to be the result of a conflict between generations and the necessity to empower their Orthodox identity in emigration, rather than the result of intrinsic philosophical or theological differences.","PeriodicalId":43055,"journal":{"name":"Studies in East European Thought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135217916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09586-2
Daniel Kisliakov
{"title":"Nicholas Afanasiev and his neo-patristic approach","authors":"Daniel Kisliakov","doi":"10.1007/s11212-023-09586-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09586-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43055,"journal":{"name":"Studies in East European Thought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135217108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09585-3
Sergey G. Chukin
{"title":"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","authors":"Sergey G. Chukin","doi":"10.1007/s11212-023-09585-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09585-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43055,"journal":{"name":"Studies in East European Thought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135267632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1007/s11212-023-09569-3
Alexandre Kojève, Rambert Nicolas
{"title":"On creative freedom and the souls’ fabrication","authors":"Alexandre Kojève, Rambert Nicolas","doi":"10.1007/s11212-023-09569-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09569-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43055,"journal":{"name":"Studies in East European Thought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135617586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}