Philosophy Unchained: Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical Thought (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society)

✍ Scribed by Mykhailo Minakov (editor)

• Publisher: ibidem Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Edition: New
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The East European nations’ common past in the Soviet Union connects them in terms of both their political histories and the evolution of their philosophical thought. The USSR’s dissolution created new opportunities, domestic and international, in science, politics, and business. De-Sovietization meant for philosophy that it lost its former significance as a political-ideological tool of the authorities, and its previous role in society. Philosophers of the former Soviet bloc now found themselves able to communicate with colleagues around the world.

This volume’s chapters analyze the renewal of the philosophical enterprise over the last thirty to forty years, in Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Among its authors are Yevgeniy Abdullaev, Viktoras Bakhmetjevas, Alexandru Cosmescu, Maija Kule, Denys Kiryukhin, Giorgi Khuroshvili, Mikhail Maiatsky, Tatyana Shchittsova, and Mikhail Minakov.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword. Soviet and Post-Soviet Philosophy:
Continuities, Complexities, Unshacklings, and
Zombifications
Editor’s Introduction. Philosophy Unchained: Introductory
Notes on the Post-Soviet Philosophical Condition
The Soviet Philosophical Condition:
Adventures of Philosophy in the Soviet Union
Philosophy as a Realistic Utopia:
A Personal View on the Emancipation of
Philosophy in Post-Soviet Belarus
Philosophy in Independent Georgia
Latvian Philosophical Developments in
the Context of Western Thought
Philosophy in Lithuania after 1989
Constructing a Philosophical Voice.
Discursive Positions in Moldovan Philosophical
Journals
Contemporary Philosophy
in Russia (1991–2022)
The Philosophical Process
in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Philosophy in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
The Contributors
Index of Names, Terms, and Titles