Department of the History of Western Philosophy

Philosophical Generations. Compiled and edited by Yulia V. Sineokaya. Moscow: LRC Publishing House Moscow, 2022. – 1232 pages. – ISBN 978-5-907290-83-9 (in Russian)

This book is a special document in the history of philosophy in Russia, a group self-portrait of Russian philosophers of the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a first-person chronicle of the Moscow philosophical community, narrated by the participants of the events described. The study of philosophical generations is important for the restoration of the human context of the development of philosophy, outside of which much will remain incomprehensible. The path from generational type to texts is no less important than the familiar path from texts. The notion of the ‘philosophical generation’ is used as a key to interpreting the history of philosophy. The generational approach allows us to change the usual optics, to focus the attention of researchers on existential, personal ties within the professional community, which clarifies the mutual influences of scholars that determine the birth and development of philosophical ideas. The publication is timed to the centenary of the Institute of Philosophy, RAS, whose creation marked the beginning of the institutionalization of philosophical research in Russia, and illustrated with photographic portraits of the authors from the time of their entering the profession.

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Philosophy in plural. Book 2. Compiled and edited by Andrey V. Smirnov and Yulia V. Sineokaya. Moscow: Academic Project Publishing, 2020. ‒ 412 pages ‒ ISBN 978-5-8291-3892-9 (in Russian)

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Responses. Philosophical Conversations. Compiled and edited by Yulia V. Sineokaya. Moscow: LRC Publishing House Moscow, 2021. – 1000 pages. – ISBN 978-5-907290-49-5 (in Russian)

This illustrated collection of articles represents the result of a successful joint project «Remarks (Anatomy of Philosophy)» of the Institute of philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow Dostoyevsky Municipal Library. The goal of this project is bringing the academic philosophy into the public space. The dialogues-discussions were given by researchers at an open intellectual venue in the center of Moscow. All the texts are written by participants of the project on the basis of their presentations to everyone who is interested in philosophy. The book main purpose is to explain to public what modern philosophers are working on. Among the 70 authors of the book there are not only researchers  from the Institute of Philosophy of RAS, but also colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian State University for the Humanities,  Moscow Pedagogical State University, other universities and research centers of Russia, as well as  philosophers from Germany, Serbia, France, the USA and Japan. Open dialogues of the philosophers at the city library gave a clear answer to a question: "Why philosophy is necessary for society and what is practical outcome from it?" The success of the project shows that philosophy is necessary not only for the closed circle of intellectuals, but for all people. Philosophy helps people to find out the sense of existence and support them in everyday life. This collection was gathering all generations of researchers. The texts are followed by the photo portraits of the philosophers at work and their listeners. This project became a worthy episode in the chronicle of Russian philosophy and a bright illustration of intellectual life in the Russian capital at the beginning of the 21st century.

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Philosophy in Plural. Compiled and edited by Andrey V. Smirnov and Yulia V. Sineokaya.  Moscow: Academic Project Publishing, 2020. ‒ 529 pages ‒ ISBN 978-5-8291-2473-1 (in Russian)

The articles included in this book are cult texts of Russian philosophers who worked in different epochs at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and have made a significant contribution to the world philosophical tradition. The authors of this volume present different generations of thinkers who connected their fate and their work with the Institute of Philosophy. The creators of philosophical conceptions which are represented in this book have already died, still we can see their creativity as a complete phenomenon. Each article published in this volume is preceded by an essay about its author, introducing the intellectual legacy of the represented philosopher.

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Nietzsche Today. Compiled and edited by Yulia V. Sineokaya. Moscow, LRC Publishing House, 2019. – 312 pages – ISBN 978-5-907117-74 (in Russian)

The purpose of the book is to show the relevance of Friedrich Nietzsche’s legacy for the 21st century, to specify the problem area of contemporary Nietzsche studies, to identify the guidelines of the work of Russian scholars as well as to reveal Nietzsche’s role in creating the contemporary intellectual context of Russian life. All the texts included in this publication are research papers based on the public lectures which their authors delivered as an open discussion platform in the center of Moscow within the framework of the co-project of the Institute of Philosophy, RAS and Moscow library named aft er F. M. Dostoevsky. Th e collection of articles is illustrated by the portraits of the philosophers dedicated to their work and their audience. The book is intended both for specialists in history of philosophy and for the general public and is designed to help the reader get rid of the stereotypes of percepting Nietzsche’s work as the preaching of National Socialism, chauvinism, or violence, the stereotypes persisting in Russian culture since the 1930s.

Philosophical Emanations of Love. Compiled and edited by Yulia V. Sineokaya. Moscow, LRC Publishing House, 2018. – 576 pages – ISBN 978-5-6041006-3-9 (in Russian)

The book you are holding in your hands is the story of philosophical unions whose creative work was formed with mutual love, of the unity of philosophy and Eros, of how philosophical texts are born from the intertwining of personal and creative fates. It is a chronicle of the passions of people who lived in different eras and different countries and worked in different thought paradigms. The poignant tragedy of all the life stories is overcome through joint creative work, the joy of communicating with a person of kindred spirit, of finding the meaning of life in passionate service to the chosen one and to one’s calling. No two essays, no two stories in this volume are alike. The book opens with the stories of love and work of married couples. Then follow essays about impossible love, about lovers doomed to be separated, and about those who were close and loving, but never became loved. The next body of texts is stories of forbidden love that challenges the social mores and involves a series of difficult and painful decisions lovers have to make. The book concludes with stories of spiritual love. It draws on rare archive materials, letters, personal notes, memoirs and diary jottings of philosophers. It contains fragments from academic papers never published in Russian before and letters of foreign thinkers. It is aimed both at historians of philosophy and at the broad lay audience. It may attract those who are interested in the lives of past thinkers and the history of how philosophical concepts were conceived — the “biographies” of ideas and senses. The reader will find neither solace nor instruction in the vicissitudes of the heroes’ lives, instead he will learn how love-passion, love of someone to lean on, love-rapture, love-support, love-infatuation, love-service and love-friendship shape a philosophical tradition.

Nelly V. Motroshilova. Early Philosophy of Edmund Husserl (Halle, 1887–1901). – Moscow, Progress-Tradition Publ., 2018. – 800 pages. – ISBN: 978-5-04-100819-2

The study of the early philosophy of Edmund Gusserl is aimed at eliminating the complete "white spot" in the development of the heritage of this thinker in Russia. It includes the study of the socio-historical situation in Germany of the last decades of the 19th century, that is, the specific environment in which E. Gusserl went uneasy from mathematics to philosophy. The main lines of his spiritual, philosophical development and his activities at the University of Galle-Wittenberg, as well as interactions in the scientific and philosophical community, are traced. In the center of the book is still the only holistic textual study in phenomenological literature of "Philosophy of Arithmetic," E. Gusserl 's first significant book (it was not translated into Russian). Special attention is paid to the first "breakthroughs" of Gusserl 's future phenomenological ideas. For the first time in domestic literature, Gusserlean manuscripts prepared for the never-published II volume of "Philosophy of Arithmetic" and printed in "Gusserlian" only in the second half of the 20th century are introduced into scientific circulation. Taken and considered in its integrity, the book 's issues make it possible to link the initial stages of the development of Gusserl 's ideas with the yet not completely clear but already broken outlines of his future phenomenology, with its potential opportunities realized by Gusserl and his followers and resulting in the transformation of phenomenology into one of the most powerful philosophical currents of the 20th century. The complex material of the book is turned by the author into a transparent, understandable and fascinating narrative, which will undoubtedly expand the circle of its readers.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Legacy and Prospects. Compiled and edited by Yulia V. Sineokaya and Ekaterina A. Poljakova. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2017. – 824 pages – Hardcover – ISBN 978-5-94457-311-7

The trilingual collection of articles focuses on the problems of Nietzsche studies at the beginning of the 21st century. Thirty-four philosophers from thirteen countries who work in the leading universities and research centres of Russia, Europe and America discuss the influence of Nietzsche’s work on world culture, argue about the ideas of the German philosopher that turned out to bфe most in demand in the 20th century, raise the question of Nietzsche’s responsibility for the ideology of National Socialism, express their judgments of what his ideas might contribute to the philosophy in the 21st century. The book is intended both for specialists in history of philosophy and for a wide range of readers and aims to promote communication among intellectuals of different countries.

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Das internationale Publikationsproject "Friedrich Nietzsche: Legacy and Prospects" (russ. sowie eng./dt, Moskau 2017)

Presentation at the Berliner Nitzsche Colloquium (Vortragsprogramm)