Research interests
- History of Russian Culture. History of Philosophy (Metaphysics, Russian philosophy, Ancient and medieval philosophy, Kant and German Idealism). Philosophy of Culture.
Primary academic affiliation
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
- Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
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gumaniora@gmail.com
Alexander Dobrokhotov
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
- 2009 to present Professor at the School of Cultural Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
- 1995 to 2009 Professor, Chair of the Faculty of History and Theory of World Culture, Philosophy Department of Moscow State University
- 1988-1995 Chair of the Department of Cultural History, Moscow Physical-Technological Institute.
- 1972 – 1975: Graduate studies at the History of Western Philosophy Department, Moscow State University
- 1967 – 1972: Department of Philosophy at Moscow State University
- Philosophy of Culture. Moscow, 2016.
- Teleology of Culture. Moscow, 2016.
- Selected Works. Moscow, 2008.
- Dante. Moscow, 1990.
- Pre-Socratic Teachings on Being. Moscow, 1980.
- “Those born in godforsaken years . . .” Russian Studies in Philosophy, 2021, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 489-500.
- Aza A. Takho-Godi’s contribution to the history of ideas and concepts. Studies in East European Thought (2023).
- Vyacheslav Ivanov on Pushkin’s The Gypsies: The Antinomy of Individualism and Freedom. In: Russian Studies in Philosophy, 2019, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 260-269.
- “Mystical Antinomism.” Losev’s Assessments and Interpretations of Goethe. In: Russian Studies in Philosophy, 2018, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 467-476.
- What the Russian symbolists heard in the ‘‘music of revolution’’: philosophical implications. In: Studies in East European Thought: Volume 69, Issue 4 (2017), Page 287–304.
- The Revolutions of 1917 in the Philosophy of the Russian Symbolism. In: National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Basic Research Program. Working Papers. Series: Humanities, WP BRP 148/HUM/2017. Moscow, 2017.
- The Austrian Experience: The Mamardashvili Variant. In: Transcultural Studies: A Journal in Interdisciplinary Research Vol. 5 No. 1 2009 [2015] Special Issue: Merab Mamardashvili: Transcultural Philosopher. Pp. 65-73.
- Descartes and Dostoyevski: two modes of ‘cogito’. In: National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Basic Research Program. Working Papers. Series: Humanities, WP BRP 89/HUM/2015. Moscow, 2015.
- Die Rezeption der klassischen deutschen Ästhetik in den Arbeiten und Diskussionen der GAChN. In: Kunst als Sprache – Sprachen der Kunst. Russische Ästhetik und Kunsttheorie der 1920er Jahre in der europäischen Diskussion. Sonderheft12 der “Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft”. Felix Meiner Verlag, 2014. S. 225 – 246.
- Le probleme du “Moi” dans la philosophie de Vladimir Soloviev et de l’Age d’argent. In: Revue philosophique de France et de l’étranger. N°3-2014. P. 297 – 314.
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