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59The rise of Russian neo-kantianism: Vvedenskij's early 'critical philosophy' (review)Studies in East European Thought 50 (2): 119-151. 1998.This essay is a study of Vvedenskij's works starting from his 1888 dissertation up to the turn of the century. I attempt to show that although his explicit aim was to update Kant's philosophy of science in light of developments in physics in the 19th century, Vvedenskij departed considerably from Kant's position with respect to both first philosophy and reflection on the achievements of the natural sciences. Vvedenskij's increasing concern with practical philosophy in the 1890s led him to correc…Read more
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31The young Losev as phenomenologistStudies in East European Thought 67 (3-4): 249-264. 2015.The two names most closely associated with phenomenology in early twentieth century Russia are Gustav Špet and Aleksej Losev. However, is that judgment warranted with regard to Losev? In just what way can we look on him as a phenomenologist? Losev himself, in the mid-1920s, employed the expression “dialectical phenomenology,” seeing phenomenology as an initial descriptive method to ascertain essences. He was sharply critical of its self-limitation in disavowing all explanation as metaphysical. Y…Read more
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14Kant in Imperial RussiaSpringer Verlag. 2017.This book presents a comprehensive study of the influence of Immanuel Kant’s Critical Philosophy in the Russian Empire, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution. It systematically details the reception bestowed on Kant’s ideas during his lifetime and up to and through the era of the First World War. The book traces the tensions arising in the early 19th century between the imported German scholars, who were often bristling with the latest philosophical developme…Read more
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37Kant in russia: Lavrov in the 1860s — a new beginning?Studies in East European Thought 43 (1): 1-36. 1992.
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15Kant in Russia: Lavrov in the 1860S? A new beginning?Studies in Soviet Thought 43 (1): 1-36. 1992.
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51Kant in russia: The initial phase (cont'd)Studies in East European Thought 40 (4): 79-110. 1990.
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29Gustav Shpet’s Implicit Phenomenological IdealismHusserl Studies 34 (3): 267-285. 2018.The issue of whether the phenomenology presented in Ideen I was a metaphysical realism or an idealism came to the fore almost immediately upon its publication. The present essay is an examination of the relation of Gustav Shpet, one of Husserl’s students from the Göttingen years, to this issue via his understanding of phenomenology and, particularly, of the phenomenological reduction, as shown principally in his early published writings. For Shpet, phenomenology employs essential intuition witho…Read more
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42Gustav Shpet’s Path Towards IntersubjectivityHusserl Studies 30 (1): 47-64. 2014.With his “discovery” of the phenomenological reduction, Husserl confronted the problem of intersubjectivity: How is the Other constituted? Gustav Shpet, a Russian student of Husserl’s in Göttingen, unlike many others accepted the reduction on some level but, unlike Husserl, did not dwell on the problem. In this essay, we look first at the Russian treatment of intersubjectivity in the immediately preceding years and see that the concern was over the possibility of proving our natural conviction i…Read more
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52Karpov and jurkevič on Kant: Philosophy in service to orthodoxy?Studies in East European Thought 45 (3). 1993.
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27Freedom of thought and expression in Eurocommunist philosophyStudies in Soviet Thought 30 (4): 397-406. 1985.
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40Debol'skij and lesevič on Kant: Two Russian philosophies in the 1870sStudies in East European Thought 45 (4). 1993.
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38From neo-kantianism to logicism: Vvedenskij's mature yearsStudies in East European Thought 51 (1). 1999.In the first two decades of the century Vvedenskij developed and defended what he took to be an original argument in support of the impossibility of metaphysical knowledge. This argument, which he hailed as a proof, involved an examination of the four laws of thought alone. As it made no appeal to the highly technical analyses found in Kant''s first Critique, Vvedenskij considered it to be more efficient and thereby effective than Kant''s own arguments. Although Vvedenskij''s estimation of his a…Read more
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45Althusser's anti-humanism and soviet philosophyStudies in East European Thought 21 (4): 363-385. 1980.
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50Freedom of thought and expression in eurocommunist philosophyStudies in East European Thought 30 (4): 397-406. 1985.
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Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
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