Kirill Chepurin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirill Chepurin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirill |
| FAMILY NAME | Chepurin |
| SIGNATURE | CHEPURIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0265-7730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Endless Flight from Providence
This article reconstructs Susan Taubes’s response to the postwar crisis of theodicy through the lens of her philosophical and literary writings from the 1950s and 1960s: her critique of Simone Weil’s “negative theodicy,” her novella Lament for Julia, and her novel Divorcing. These works refract Taubes’s critical engagement with Gnosticism and her wrestling with the possibility of inhabiting a world that cannot be justified, opening onto questions…
Introduction to Part II
Part II rereads Schelling’s post-1809 philosophy as a geo-racial theodicy of universal history. Following the collapse of his earlier vision of immediate bliss, this theodicy refracts Schelling’s grappling with the possibility of providence in the face of the darkness and contingency of the modern universe. In response to the ongoing discovery of deep time at what is often taken to be the beginning of the Anthropocene, Schellingian theodicy seeks…
Bliss Against the World
The concept of bliss, in its connotations of beatitude and salvation, may seem of little relevance to so-called secular modernity. This book argues otherwise by advancing a framework of the entanglement between modernity, Christianity, and bliss through the German idealist and Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling. In Schelling’s concept of bliss (Seligkeit), the idea of salvation from the world mutates into a burning concern with the negativi…
Reading Novalis and the Schlegels
Out of the Cemetery of the Earth, a Resurrective Commons
Nikolai Fedorov (1829–1903) is an eccentric figure without parallel in the domain of modern thought. His intellectual vision, elaborated across a number of essays and the sprawling unpublished magnum opus written from the 1870s to the 1890s, The Question of Fraternity, attempted a novel theorization of the trajectory, meaning, and telos of the human species through the fulcrum of resurrection.1 For this unorthodox Russian Orthodox thinker, resurr…
Nothing Absolute
Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularit…
Suspending the World
This paper revisits the rhetorics of system and irony in Fichte and Friedrich Schlegel in order to theorize the utopic operation and standpoint that, I argue, system and irony share. Both system and irony transport the speculative speaker to the impossible zero point preceding and suspending the construction of any binary terms or the world itself—an immanent nonplace (of the in-itself, nothingness, or chaos) that cannot be inscribed into the wor…
The Sovereignty of the World
Sovereign Nothingness
This paper speculatively reconstructs the unique intervention that Pyotr Chaadaev, the early nineteenth-century Russian thinker, made into the political-theological debate. Instead of positioning sovereignty and exception against each other, Chaadaev seeks to think the (Russian) exception immanently, affirming its nonrelation to, and even nullity or nothingness vis--vis, the (European, Christianmodern) world-historical regime-and to theorize the …
Russia's Atopic Nothingness
Russian philosopher Pyotr Chaadaev (1794–1856) declared Russia to be a non-place in both space and time, a singular nothingness without history, topos, or footing, without relation or attachment to the world-historical tradition culminating in Christian-European modernity. This paper recovers Chaadaev's conception of nothingness as that which, unbound by tradition, constitutes a total, even revolutionary ungrounding of the world-whole. Working wi…
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Sovereign Nothingness
This paper speculatively reconstructs the unique intervention that Pyotr Chaadaev, the early nineteenth-century Russian thinker, made into the political-theological debate. Instead of positioning sovereignty and exception against each other, Chaadaev seeks to think the (Russian) exception immanently, affirming its nonrelation to, and even nullity or nothingness vis--vis, the (European, Christianmodern) world-historical regime-and to theorize the …
Russia's Atopic Nothingness
Russian philosopher Pyotr Chaadaev (1794–1856) declared Russia to be a non-place in both space and time, a singular nothingness without history, topos, or footing, without relation or attachment to the world-historical tradition culminating in Christian-European modernity. This paper recovers Chaadaev's conception of nothingness as that which, unbound by tradition, constitutes a total, even revolutionary ungrounding of the world-whole. Working wi…
Suspending the World
This paper revisits the rhetorics of system and irony in Fichte and Friedrich Schlegel in order to theorize the utopic operation and standpoint that, I argue, system and irony share. Both system and irony transport the speculative speaker to the impossible zero point preceding and suspending the construction of any binary terms or the world itself—an immanent nonplace (of the in-itself, nothingness, or chaos) that cannot be inscribed into the wor…
The Sovereignty of the World
Nothing Absolute
Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularit…
Reading Novalis and the Schlegels
Out of the Cemetery of the Earth, a Resurrective Commons
Nikolai Fedorov (1829–1903) is an eccentric figure without parallel in the domain of modern thought. His intellectual vision, elaborated across a number of essays and the sprawling unpublished magnum opus written from the 1870s to the 1890s, The Question of Fraternity, attempted a novel theorization of the trajectory, meaning, and telos of the human species through the fulcrum of resurrection.1 For this unorthodox Russian Orthodox thinker, resurr…
Introduction to Part II
Part II rereads Schelling’s post-1809 philosophy as a geo-racial theodicy of universal history. Following the collapse of his earlier vision of immediate bliss, this theodicy refracts Schelling’s grappling with the possibility of providence in the face of the darkness and contingency of the modern universe. In response to the ongoing discovery of deep time at what is often taken to be the beginning of the Anthropocene, Schellingian theodicy seeks…
Bliss Against the World
The concept of bliss, in its connotations of beatitude and salvation, may seem of little relevance to so-called secular modernity. This book argues otherwise by advancing a framework of the entanglement between modernity, Christianity, and bliss through the German idealist and Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling. In Schelling’s concept of bliss (Seligkeit), the idea of salvation from the world mutates into a burning concern with the negativi…
Endless Flight from Providence
This article reconstructs Susan Taubes’s response to the postwar crisis of theodicy through the lens of her philosophical and literary writings from the 1950s and 1960s: her critique of Simone Weil’s “negative theodicy,” her novella Lament for Julia, and her novel Divorcing. These works refract Taubes’s critical engagement with Gnosticism and her wrestling with the possibility of inhabiting a world that cannot be justified, opening onto questions…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Nothing (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (4 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Modernity (3 works) · Politics (3 works)