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Philosophy and Post-Totalitarian Practices
Philosophy and Post-Totalitarian Practices

Author(s): Serhii Yosypenko
Subject(s): Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Governance
Published by: Международное философско-космологическое общество
Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe; totalitarian phenomenon; totalitarian experience; Soviet philosophy; post-totalitarian practices;

Summary/Abstract: This writing aims to outline the principles of researches on philosophy in Central and Eastern European countries, preferably USSR, in the latest soviet and post-soviet periods. In author’s opinion,the crucial points for such kind of research are: a) to discover a correlation between philosophy and the phenomenon of totalitarianism; b) to correlate a soviet philosophy with totalitarian experience. The article considers methodological and axiological problems in research of post-totalitarian practices in general as such as in philosophy. In author’s opinion the main problem in development of the post-soviet philosophy is interiorisation of intellectual, cultural and social practices, which were formed concerning to totalitarian experience. This became a reason of “cynicism” and “nihilism” of post-soviet philosophy.It’s impossible to cast mentioned phenomena off without consideration of totalitarian phenomenon and critical reconsideration of the own totalitarian experience

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 134-144
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English