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42Frédéric Nef, L'Anti-Hume: De la logique des relations à la métaphysique des connexions, Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2017 (review)Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 106 (2): 289-295. 2020.
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42The Defects of Bergson's Epistemology and Their Consequences on His MetaphysicsStudies in East European Thought 69 (1): 17-24. 2017.This is a translation from the Russian of Nikolai Lossky’s “Heдocтaтки гнoceoлoгiи Бepгcoнa и влiянie иxъ нa eгo мeтaфизикy” (The Defects of Bergson’s Epistemology and Their Consequences on His Metaphysics), which was published in the journal Boпpocы филocoфiи и пcиxoлoгiи (Questions of Philosophy and Psychology) in 1913. In this article, Lossky criticizes Bergson’s epistemological dualism, which completely separates intuition from reason, and which rejects reason in favor of intuition. For Berg…Read more
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41Max Scheler †In Moritz Kalckreuth, Gregor Schmieg & Friedrich Hausen (eds.), Nicolai Hartmanns Neue Ontologie und die Philosophische Anthropologie: Menschliches Leben in Natur und Geist. pp. 263-271. 2019.This is a translation of the obituary that Nicolai Hartmann wrote for his colleague and friend, Max Scheler, after the latter's premature death in 1928. In this eulogy, after emphasizing the unfortunate incompleteness of Scheler's lifework, his keeping abreast with the development of the various sciences, his power of intuition, and the fact that he was a philosopher of life without for that matter having a Lebensphilosophie, Hartmann chronologically recapitulates Scheler's life achievements, be…Read more
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36Russian Ontologism: An OverviewStudies in East European Thought 73 (2): 123-140. 2021.Russian philosophy underwent many phases: Westernism, Slavophilism, nihilism, pre-revolutionary religious philosophy, and dialectical materialism or Soviet philosophy. At first sight, each one of these phases seems antithetical to the preceding one. Yet, they all appear to have in common a certain negative attitude towards the subjectivism of Kantianism and German Idealism. In contrast to the latter, Russian philosophy typically displays a tendency towards ontologism, which is generally defined …Read more
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25Historical Introduction to Nicolai Hartmann’s Concept of PossibilityAxiomathes 27 (2): 193-207. 2017.In his article “The Megarian and Aristotelian Concept of Possibility”, Nicolai Hartmann attempts to revive an interpretation of the conception of possibility of the Megarians that stood in opposition to the Aristotelian conception of possibility and thus in opposition to the Aristotelian conception of modality in general. In this introduction, I undertake to situate Hartmann’s article in its historical context. Did Hartmann come to adopt this thesis through his study of ancient Greek philosophy?…Read more
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18Karel Sládek, Nikolay Lossky and the Case for Mystical Intuition: Translated by Pavlina and Tim Morgan, Karolinum Press, Prague, 2020, Paperback, 158 p., 240 czk, ISBN 978-80-246-4570-4 (review)Studies in East European Thought 73 (1): 117-120. 2021.The book under review is a translation of a monograph written in Czech entitled Nikolaj Losskij: Obhájce mystické intuice, published in 2011. As a theologian, the author is above all interested in the spiritual and theological aspects of Lossky’s thought. The first two chapters are concerned with Lossky’s life and work before and during his years in Czechoslovakia. The third chapter is devoted to the analysis and interpretation of Lossky’s booklet Mystical Intuition published in English in 1938,…Read more
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17Review of Dimitar Mihalchev, Metafisika (Zapiski), Sofia, Paradigma, 2021, 251 pages, ISBN 978-954-326-450-6, 16 leva (review)Studies in East European Thought 1-4. forthcoming.
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14Review of Julie Chajes, Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xii + 215 p., Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-19-090913-0, £64 (review)Studies in East European Thought 73 (4): 525-529. 2021.This is a review of Julie Chajes, Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. The book, which falls under the broader umbrella of the academic study of Western esotericism, is concerned with the Russian occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), her doctrine of reincarnation, its development through the different phases of her literary work, and her sources, whether these be Indian philosophy, Ancient Greek philosophy, or nine…Read more
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12Correction to: Leibniz’s Doctrine of Reincarnation as MetamorphosisSophia 60 (2): 495-495. 2021.A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-021-00853-5
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11The Different Senses of the Word IntuitionStudies in East European Thought 1-12. forthcoming.This is a translation from Bulgarian into English of Nikolai Lossky’s “Razlichniiat smisul na dumata intuitsiia” (“The Different Senses of the Word Intuition”), published in the Sofianite journal Filosofski pregled (Philosophical Review), 1931, year III, book 1, pp. 1–9. In this article, solicited by the journal’s editor-in-chief, the Bulgarian philosopher Dimitar Mihalchev, Lossky surveys the different ways in which the word “intuition” (intuitsiia) has been used throughout the history of philo…Read more
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11Review of: Berdnikova, Aleksandra Yurievna, Neoleibnitsianstvo v Rossii, Moskva, Institut filosofii Rossiiskoi akademii nauk, 2021, 248 pages, ISBN 978-5-9540-0358-1, 154 "Equation missing" (review)Studies in East European Thought 75 (3): 557-561. 2023.
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7« Connaissance et être d’après Simon Frank » par Pierre Thévenaz (1913–1955)Revue des Etudes Slaves (3): 401-417. 2023.En 1937, le philosophe russe Simon Frank (1877-1950) publia la Connaissance et l’être, une traduction française abrégée de Predmet znanija, auprès de la maison d’édition parisienne Fernand Aubier. Grâce à cette traduction, il attira l’attention de philosophes francophones, parmi lesquels se trouvait le suisse Pierre Thévenaz (1913-1955), qui donna une présentation s’intitulant « Connaissance et être d’après Simon Frank » à une rencontre de la Société romande de philosophie à Lausanne le 7 décemb…Read more
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Ilona Svetlikova, The Moscow Pythagoreans: Mathematics, Mysticism, and Anti-Semitism in Russian Symbolism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 184 pp. (review)Canadian-American Slavic Studies 51 (1): 167-170. 2017.This is a review of an interdisciplinary work of intellectual history on the Moscow philosophical-mathematical school. The author, Ilona Svetlikova, is primarily interested in the thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century mathematician and philosopher Nikolai Bugaev, of his son Boris Bugaev — better known under his nom de plume Andrei Belyi —, of Nikolai Bugaev’s student Pavel Nekrasov, and of other disciples of Bugaev, especially Vissarion Alekseev, the Baron Mikhail Taube, and…Read more
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Russian LeibnizianismIn Lloyd Strickland & Julia Weckend (eds.), Leibniz's Legacy and Impact, Routledge. 2019.Leibniz’s philosophy enjoyed a Russian fandom that endured from the eighteenth century to the death of the last exiled Russian philosophers in the twentieth century. There was, to begin with, Leibniz’s direct impact on Peter the Great and on the scientific development of Saint Petersburg. Then there was, still in the eighteenth century, Mikhail Lomonosov, who was sent to study with Christian Wolff in Marburg, and who came back to Saint Petersburg with a watered-down Leibnizian worldview, which h…Read more
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