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How is Russian philosophy perceived abroad

31 March, 2023

What is the place of Russian philosophy in the world? What and how do people abroad know about our philosophy? The answers may not be pleasing.


Guest - Vasily Viktorovich Vanchugov, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University
Moderator - Anton Kuznetsov, Ph.D., research associate at the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University

Timeline:

00:00 - Introduction
02:14 - Cold War and peak of interest in Russian philosophy
05:40 - Strange start of Russian philosophy and difficulties in its perception  
12:46 - 19th century: how is Russian philosophy recognized
17:15 - Russian philosophers don't want to know each other
19:03 - How Baron August von Haxthausen discovered the Russian community
21:22 - The role of Bakunin and Herzen in shaping the image of Russia
26:01 - Which of our philosophers are in the top?
30:02 - Religious philosophy as gibberish 
30:48 - The global presence of Berdyaev and Dostoevsky and the local presence of others
35:25 - What about Hartman, Kozhev and others? And about the role of Isaiah Berlin
39:18 - Russian philosophers are mostly known by a narrow circle of specialists. Absence of Russian philosophy in the Philosophical Academy
42:08 - What do they know about Soviet philosophy?
44:27 - Russian academic philosophers known among foreign philosophers 
46:33 - What should happen to make Russian philosophy more noticeable?
49:22 - Summary from Mary

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