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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