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66Assen Ignatow, selbstauflösung Des humanismus. Die philosophisch-anthropologischen voraussentzungen für den zusammebruch Des kommunismusStudies in East European Thought 52 (1-2): 151-157. 2000.
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60Vladimir solov'ëv's “virtue epistemology”Studies in East European Thought 51 (3). 1999.I attempt to clarify the connection between two late texts by V.S. Solov''ëv: Justification of the Good and Theoretical Philosophy. Solov''ëv drew attention to the intrinsic connection between moral and intellectual virtues. Theoretical Philosophy is the initial -- unfinished -- sketch of the dynamism of mind seeking truth as a good. I sketch several parallels and analogies between the doctrine of moral experience set out in Justification and the account of the intellect''s dynamism based on imm…Read more
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47Was Brzozowski a “constructionist”? A contemporary reading of Brzozowski’s “philosophy of labour”Studies in East European Thought 63 (4): 329-343. 2011.Brzozowski’s ‘philosophy of labour’—to which he devoted a number of writings starting in 1902—presents problems of interpretation. A conceptual approach to his conception shows it to be a sometimes uneasy mix of realist and anti-realist notions. Brzozowski appears to have thought that labour is not first of all about the things it supposedly transforms, but rather about itself. I suggest that Brzozowski can be read in the spirit of Nelson Goodman’s nominalist constructionalism (“worldmaking”). O…Read more
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7The Philosophical Foundations of Soviet AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 39 (1): 92-93. 1980.
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44Options for a marxist-leninist theory of the aestheticStudies in East European Thought 20 (2): 127-143. 1979.
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51Gennady semënovitch Batygin (1951–2003) member of the international advisory board of SEET since 2000Studies in East European Thought 56 (1): 3-5. 2004.
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39From social subject to the 'person' the belated transformation in latter-day soviet philosophyPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 23 (2): 199-227. 1993.With the dismantling of Marxist-Leninist ideology, fresh inspiration has been discernible in recent Soviet philosophy. This article argues that a major area of concern is the nature of the human being, a theme formerly dominated by the "social" conceptions inscribed into official historical materialism. Soviet philosophers are examining such categories as culture, spirit, consciousness, and personality with an eye to their common characteristics. For many, the latter is grounded in the nature of…Read more
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42Editor's introductionStudies in East European Thought 55 (1): 1-2. 2003.In the summer of 1997 one could scarcely enter a bookstore in Beijing without encountering Wang Xiaobo's pensive and defiant look on the cover of dozens of books displayed at the entrance. Wang had suddenly died in the spring of that year at the age of forty-five. Born in Beijing in 1952 to a family of intellectuals, he remained attached to China's capital despite periods of separation, such as during the Cultural Revolution, when he was sent to Yunnan to "learn from the peasants" and taught in …Read more
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79Culture, contexts, and directions in Russian post-soviet philosophyStudies in East European Thought 50 (4): 283-328. 1998.The author examines, historically and theoretically, issues related to the state and current tendencies of post-Soviet Russian philosophy. The accent falls on the meta-philosophical question, what is philosophy?, or as the Russians often say, what is philosophizing?. In the Russian case, this question has presently to be handled in a cultural context ridden with a sense of discontinuity following the Soviet collapse. The author sketches some concepts intended to shed light on the nature of the r…Read more
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11Bocheński’s Minima MoraliaFilozofia Nauki 30 (2): 9-27. 2022.Late in life, Józef Maria Bocheński set out to examine the age-old preoccupation with the question “how to live as well and as long as possible?” A traditional answer has been, “live wisely.” In his Handbook of Worldly Wisdom (2020), Bocheński analyzes this answer arguing that, conceptually, living wisely is distinct from obeying moral commandments, prescribing ethical rules, and recognizing authority (e.g., piety, free submission to divine authority). He claims that ethics consists solely in wh…Read more
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14The Concept of Causality in the Lvov-Warsaw School: The Legacy of Jan Łukasiewicz (edited book)BRILL. 2022.The kernel of this volume is an English translation of Jan Łukasiewicz’s classic work on the concept of cause (1906). It is the starting point for analytical considerations on causality of two generations of philosophers belonging to the tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School.
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2The Young Marx and the Tribulations of Soviet Marxist-Leninist AestheticsIn Marina F. Bykova, Michael N. Forster & Lina Steiner (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought, Springer Verlag. pp. 693-713. 2021.The focus of this chapter is the rise of investigations in philosophical aesthetics in the mid-1950s and continuing through to the mid-1960s. This salient issue had to do with the foundations of philosophical aesthetics in the context of the Marxist-Leninist worldview. That this became an issue was due in large part to the appearance, in 1956, of the first Russian translation of Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Marx’s emphasis in these writings on the self-constituting, tra…Read more
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30. 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEMATIC This study is devoted to an examination of a concept of crucial significance for Soviet aesthetics - the concept of the aesthetic (esteticeskoe). Soviet aestheticians have for some time already been trying to design a concept of the aesthetic that would satisfy, on the one hand, the requirements of aesthe tic phenomena, and, on the other hand, the principles of the Marxist-Leninist world view. The first part of this work shows how the concept of the a…Read more
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10Bohdan Dziemidok, Teoria Przezyć I Wartosci Estetyeznych A Polskiej Estetyce Dunudziesto- Lecia MiedzywojennegoJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 42 (2): 225-227. 1983.
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51'Denken über ideologie': Eine praktische begründung der erneuerung der post-sowjetischen philosophie?Studies in East European Thought 44 (3): 211-227. 1992.
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45Marxism and phenomenology: An international congress in PolandStudies in East European Thought 16 (1-2): 113-120. 1976.
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12Praxis as Culture: Dupré's Recovery of Marx' ProjectZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 40 (4). 1986.
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38Practice and the social factor in cognition: Polish marxist epistemology since kołakowskiStudies in East European Thought 21 (4): 341-362. 1980.
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