Wzajemne przenikanie się dialektyki historii Żydów Szymona Dubnowa i dialektyki rewolucji Nikołaja Bierdiajewa

The article attempts to combine the dialectics of Simon Dubnow, one of the founders of the modern historiography of the Jewish nation, with the dialectics of the revolution by the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev. It presents the way the community, and then the Jewish nation underwent from aversion through emancipation and assimilation to hatred that led to the Holocaust. The juxtaposition of the two dialectics allows us to look at the common history of Judaism and Christianity through the prism of a representative of the Jewish minority — Dubnow, and the Christian majority, one of the founders of the religious renaissance during Stalinism — Berdyaev.

A.F. Losev on F.M. Dostoevsky. About Losev's Activity in the Literary Section of the GAKhN

The researcher scrutinizes one peculiar historical and philosophical fact which has been generally overlooked when studying Dostoevsky. The analysis of the writer's works was carried out by the outstanding Russian philosopher Aleksei Losev at the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN). The article also provides further information on Losev's work at the Academy in the 1920s. Special regard is paid to the Russian philosopher's activities in the Literary Section in 1927-1929 (in the group on Ancient Literature, in the Commission for the Study of Dostoevsky). The author provides ample evidence of the special treatment Losev paid to Dostoevsky, including numerous discussions of reports on the Russian writer's oeuvre. The article draws attention to the fact that the main focus of Losev's analysis of Dostoevsky was the writer's symbolism. It is noted that Losev turned to the study of such as early as in the 1920s. However, the philosopher managed to publish his findings much later. According to Losev, symbolic images pervade all of Dostoevsky's works. Based on the comprehensive evaluation of archival sources (recorded in the minutes of meetings, preserved at the Academy) and their comparison, the article unveils a picture of the Russian philosopher's activity and agenda. That helps us better grasp the range of his scholarly interests, significantly expands the opportunities for further research into this period of Losev's life and provides new data for the GAKhN history.

From groundlessness—to freedom: The theme of ‘awakening’ in the thought of Lev Shestov

The philosopher Lev Shestov aimed to establish a new free way of thinking, which manifested itself as a struggle against the delusion that we have a rational grasp of the necessary truths on matters that are of the greatest importance to us, such as the questions of life and death. Philosophy, as the Russian philosopher understood it, is not pure thinking, but ‘some kind of inner doing, inner regeneration, or second birth’ (Shestov in Lektsii po Istorii Grecheskoi Filosofii [Lectures on the history of Greek philosophy], YMCA-PRESS, Moscow, 2001, p. 53). Having adopted the notion of the ‘regeneration of one’s convictions’ from Dostoevsky’s vocabulary in his earlier works, Shestov developed the idea of ‘awakening’ further in his mature thought, in which the motif of ‘awakening’ comprised one of the main ideas of his philosophy: the fight for the individual’s right to freedom and to creative transformation at a time when she is in despair or on the brink of death. In this article, I analyse Shestov’s idea of ‘awakening’ as one of the key tropes and developmental characteristics of his philosophical vision. In particular, I argue that, having stemmed from Shestov’s earlier interpretations of Dostoevsky, Shakespeare and Plotinus, in his later writings, the notion of ‘awakening’—the possibility of a fundamental, inner transformation of one’s worldview (probuzhdenie, pererozhdenie)—marked the beginning of a new salvific mode in his writing.

The Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War: What the Biography of the Philosopher I.A. Ilyin Hides

The article contains fragments of Russian philosopher I. A. Ilyin's biography and separate articles from his other works. It shows that I. A. Ilyin collaborated with fascist Germany, worked against the USSR, and supported the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. Nowadays, this information about Ilyin is not published in Russia for some unclear reasons.

A WORTHY BOOK ABOUT AN OUTSTANDING RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHER

Рецензируемая монография посвящена наследию В.С. Степина и его вкладу в юридическую науку. Идеи указанного выдающегося философа авторами книги развиваются. В результате формируются новые направления правовых исследований и раскрываются перспективы будущего права. Рецензенты приходят к выводу, что изучаемая монография удалась, вызывает обоснованный интерес, заставляет задуматься о смысле права, бытия, свободы. Книга будет полезна широкому кругу читателей. The monograph under review is devoted to the legacy of V.S. Stepin and his contribution to legal science. The ideas of this outstanding philosopher are being developed by the authors of the book. As a result, new directions of legal research are formed and the prospects for future law are revealed. The reviewers come to the conclusion that the monograph under study was a success, arouses reasonable interest, makes one think about the meaning of law and freedom. The book will be useful to a wide range of readers.

ИГРА КАК ОСНОВА И ФАКТОР КУЛЬТУРЫ: ЛИЦЕДЕЙТВО – ЮРОДСТВО – ШАМАНСТВО

В статье рассматривается взаимосвязь трех феноменов, существующих в жизни людей в игровой форме. Впрочем, в такой форме существуют и многие другие проявления человеческой жизни. Три, исследованные в данной работе: лицедейство, юродство и шаманство – по-своему демонстрируют игру как поведенческую систему и один из важных принципов взаимоотношения между людьми. Однако, несмотря на своеобразие каждого, в них, так или иначе, присутствует феномен игры, существующей в виде притворства или двуличия. Теоретической основой статьи стали взгляды выдающегося нидерландского историка и культуролога И. Хёйзинги, изложенные им в книге Homo ludens [Человек играющий]. В ней он анализирует игровой характер культуры, провозглашая универсальность феномена игры как одного из важных составляющих человеческой цивилизации. По мнению И. Хёйзинги, человек является таковым из-за способности выступать и являться субъектом игры. И именно поэтому все, что делает человек в обыденной жизни, он облекает это делание в культурное содержание. В этой связи известный русский философ Лев Лосев оригинально выразился: «После изгнания из рая человек живет, играя». The article examines the relationship of three phenomena that exist in people’s lives as varieties of a game. In fact, many other aspects of life can exist in this way. The three phenomena studied in this work – acting, foolishness, and shamanism – represent the game as a behavioral system and one of the important principles of the interpersonal relationships. However, despite their uniqueness, they somehow imply the game either as pretense or duplicity. The study is based on the idea introduced by the outstanding Dutch historian and cultural critic I. Heizinga and described in the book “Homo ludens”. He analyzes the game nature of culture and proclaims the universality of the game as one of the important components of human civilization. According to I. Heizinga, the ability to act and be the subject of the game makes us humans. And that is why everything that one does in everyday life is placed in the cultural content. The famous Russian philosopher Lev Losev wittily wrote: “After expulsion from from paradise people live playing”.

Critical perception of V. D. Kudryavtsev-Platonov of the doctrine on the categories and fundamentals of I. Kant’s pure reason

The subject of this research is the reception of the doctrine on the categories and fundamentals of I. Kant’s pure reason in of V. D. Kudryavtsev-Platonov’s teaching on cognition (later referred to as Kudryavtsev). The reception of Kant’s doctrine in Kudryavtsev's philosophy, despite the wide array of literature dedicated to the perception of Kant's ideas in religious-academic philosophy, yet has not been the subject of in-depth historical-philosophical analysis. This defined the goal of this research – establish the degree of Kudryavtsev's understanding of the doctrine on the categories and fundamentals of Kant's pure reason, as well as reveal the nature of reception of this doctrine in Kudryavtsev's philosophy. The scientific consists in introduction of the previously unpublished Kudryavtsev’s manuscript dedicated to the philosophy of Kant. The result consists in the position, according to which Kudryavtsev interpreted Kant's doctrine on the categories and fundamentals of pure reason in the three aspects: 1) the Russian philosopher familiarizes with Kant's theory; 2) he criticizes Kant's doctrine from the perspective of gnoseological realism, focusing particularly on the transcendental deduction of pure categories; 3) Kudryavtsev gives a positive assessment to Kant's apriorism and actively uses it in his own philosophical constructs. It is claimed that the phenomenon of Kudryavtsev's “critical perception” of the doctrine on the categories and fundamentals of Kant's pure reason testifies to not only critical attitude towards the German philosopher, but also that Kantian gnoseological ideas were actively used by Kudryavtsev for solution of his own philosophical tasks.

Milestones of I.A. Ilyin’s life and work 128

Presented is an analysis of the multi-faceted creative heritage of the Russian philosopher, jurist and publicist I.A. Ilyin. Shown is that his scientific ideas and moral political ideals covering a wide range of problems of the individual and society are still relevant to actuality, and require deep critical reflection. In the article, is being recreated concrete image of the scientist-patriot of Russia.

Comprehension of spiritual experience in Christianity in the works of I.A. Ilyin

This paper is devoted to the theme of spiritual experience in the works of the Russian philosopher I.A. Ilyin. The books of this thinker emphasize that spiritual experience is subjective, unique and individual, which determines the personality in a person. These ideas are consistent with the fact that a feature of the religious worldview is the formation of the concept of personality. Meanwhile, for the post-industrial and information society, the factors that shape a person's personality are very important, especially in the modern world, where functional unit of social relations is a single person.

Articles from the“Encyclopedia of Artistic Sciences” (ed. by E.A. Takho-Godi)

The publication covers an obscure episode from the scientific biography of the great Russian philosopher Alexei Losev related to his work in the 1920s at the State Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN). For the first time, Losev’s thirteen articles from Research Department of manuscripts of the Russian State Library [f. 81 (State Academy of art studies), inv. 26, item 1] are put into scientific circulation: “Antiquity”, “Apollinism”, “Harmony”, “Dionysism”, “Callistics”, “Calocagathia”, “Catharsis”, “Cosmic feeling”, “Cosmos”, “Logos”, “Mania”, “Mathematics and art”, “Melos”. This articles were written in the second half of the 1920s and were intended for a publishing project of the State Academy of Artistic Sciences – the first volume of the multi-volume “Encyclopedia of Artistic Sciences”, conceived in 1922 as a “Dictionary of Artistic Terminology”. The project was never realized. The topics of the articles reflect the range of the scientific problems that interested Losev in the 1920s as well as his special attention to the study of terminology, which found its full implementation in the 1970 – 1980s during the work on “The History of Classical Aesthetics”.