Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University (USA). In 2012–2015, he was Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University (UK). His research interests include new directions in the humanities and methods of intellectual creativity, contemporary philosophy, postmodernism, Russian literature, and philosophy and religion of the 20th–21st cc.
He has authored 33 books and more than 700 articles and essays; his work has been translated into 23 languages. His recent books include The Irony of the Ideal: Pa…
Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University (USA). In 2012–2015, he was Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University (UK). His research interests include new directions in the humanities and methods of intellectual creativity, contemporary philosophy, postmodernism, Russian literature, and philosophy and religion of the 20th–21st cc.
He has authored 33 books and more than 700 articles and essays; his work has been translated into 23 languages. His recent books include The Irony of the Ideal: Paradoxes of Russian Literature (Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2017); The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto (New York, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012); Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with Alexander Genis and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, 2nd ed., New York, Berghahn Books, 2016); Religion after Atheism: New Opportunities for Theology (in Russian, Moscow, 2013); From Knowledge to Creativity: How the Humanities Can Change the World (in Russian, Moscow, 2016); and The Projective Dictionary of Humanistic Disciplines (in Russian, Moscow, NLO, 2017).
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