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(1998) Studies in East European Thought 50 (4).
The author examines, historically and theoretically, issues related to the state and current tendencies of post-Soviet Russian philosophy. The accent falls on the meta-philosophical question, "what is philosophy?', or as the Russians often say, "what is philosophizing?'. In the Russian case, this question has presently to be handled in a cultural context ridden with a sense of discontinuity following the Soviet collapse. The author sketches some concepts intended to shed light on the nature of the relation between a "philosophical culture" and the wider socio-cultural context in which it is embedded. The model is applied to the case of post-Soviet philosophy in order to see if and to what extent the "logic' of Soviet philosophizing and its place in the Soviet socio-cultural order has affected current philosophical tendencies in Russia, above all at the meta-philosophical level. The author concludes with a summary and commentary of the views of A.S. Akhiezer.
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Swiderski, E. (1998). Culture, contexts, and directions in Russian post-Soviet philosophy. Studies in East European Thought 50 (4), pp. 283-328.
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