Research interests
- Philosophy of Culture (Nietzsche, Benjamin, Blumenberg)
- Theories of Self (Philosophy, Psychology, Literature)
- Philosophy of Psychology
Primary academic affiliation
- PhD Student, Humboldt University of Berlin
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Email
maria.al.savina@gmail.com
Mariya Savina
MA in Philosophy, MA in Cultural Studies, Diploma in Psychology
- October 2019– PhD Student, Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- Dissertation Title: “The written Disquiet. Transformations of Self in Literary Confessions of Augustine and Pessoa”.
- 2016 – 2019 MA in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin.
- 2013 – 2015 MA in Cultural Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow).
- 2008 – 2013 Diploma in Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
- „Walter Benjamins Eschatolgy of Catastrophe. Progress, Interruption and the End of History [Walter Benjamins Eschatologie der Katastrophe. Fortschritt, Unterbrechung und das Ende der Geschichte]“, in: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, vol. 7, issue 1 (Focus: Anthropocene), 2022, 39–52.
- „The Sims: digital puppets and the afterlife of a dollhouse“, in: denkste: puppe. Puppen/dolls like mensch – puppen als künstliche menschen, 2020, 53–60.
- „History and Time: The Problem of New Beginning in Walter Benjamin's Philosophy [История и время: Кризис субъективности и проблема нового начала в философии В. Беньямина]“, in: Perm University Herald. Series “Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology”, March 2020, 55–64. (in rus.)
- „ The problem of subjectivity: interior spaces as the limit of the individual and the collective in Walter Benjamin [Проблема субъективности: внутренние пространства как граница индивидуального и коллективногов работах Вальтера Беньямина]“, in: History of Philosophy Yearbook, 2018, 200–217. (in rus.)
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