Olga A Zhukova
Biographic Data
| ID | 6801916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga A Zhukova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga A |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhukova |
| SIGNATURE | ZHUKOVA O A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0152-926X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Russian Religious Thought in Modern Research and Education
The article is devoted to current discussions in the field of Russian religious philosophy research and teaching practices in Russian state and confessional universities. It summarizes the discussion of theoretical and practical aspects of studying Russia’s philosophical heritage and its tradition of religious thought, which were discussed at the Round table “Russian Religious Thought in Modern Research and Education: Philosophy, Theology, Philos…
Russian History in a Philosophical Perspective (Reflections on the Book) On the 70th Anniversary of Aleksei A. Kara-Murza
The article is a critical and philosophical analysis of a new book by the Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksei A. Kara-Murza. His fundamental work “Selected Works on Russian Philosophy, Politics and Culture” (2024) contains articles in the field of philosophy of Russian history, completed by the author over the course of ten years. Essays, sketches, memoir and biographical texts, travelogues and philosophical and local history stud…
Image, symbol, visage
This article is devoted to identifying the features of F.A. Stepun’s creative evolution, which resulted in the philosophical concept of Christian culture and history. At the center of consideration of philosopher is the phenomenon of culture as a condition and path of ascent to the Absolute. Stepun thinks of culture as the universal beginning of human sociality and creativity in the historically specific form of its existence. The article shows t…
Freedom, creativity, spirit
The monothematic coherence of ideas and concepts is a unique feature of N.A. Berdyaev’s philosophy. This peculiarity is provided by the constantly recurring and variably developing themes of freedom and creativity, manifested in the works of the pre-revolutionary period and received conceptual religious and philosophical development in the eschatological metaphysics of the spirit. The struggle for “metaphysical idealism” became his main life’s …
From Art History to Sociology of Art and Cultural Studies
The article is devoted to the problem of contemporary studies in artistic culture and art. The current change in the methodological paradigm in social and humanitarian knowledge concerning the subject of art is considered through the example of a new monograph written by Nikolay A. Khrenov, a Russian culture expert, philosopher and scholar in the sociology of art. The book Art in a Situation of Cultural Theory Turn: Methodological Searches provid…
Dialogic Aesthetics in Boris Zaitsev’s Russian-Italian Text
This article examines the interconnection of the images of Russia and Italy in B. K. Zaitsev’s artistic consciousness revealing their ideal-forming meaning and studying the literary and aesthetic concept of the writer. It is argued that the themes of Russia, Italy, and Florence dominate in the writer’s work, making up the internal semantic unity of his multi-genre texts. The “Florentine text” is interpreted as a local textual subsystem of the “It…
Semiosis of Russian Culture and the Philosophy of Creativity in the Works of Yu.M. Lotman
The most important result of the semiotic conceptualization of the artistic process in Lotman’s research was the interpretation of literary phenomena in a broad historical and cultural context. This led him to create a holistic cultural philosophical concept. Its model is the Russian culture of the classical era, interpreted as an established historical phenomenon in the diversity of spiritual and intellectual traditions and practices. At the s…
On the Way to Free Thought
In the history of Russian philosophy there is no key figure of intellectual culture of the second half of the XIX century, which is associated with the development of academic philosophy in universities. A.V. Golovnin (1821–1886) is not included in the historiographical canon of Russian thoughtThe paper shows that Golovnin's intellectual heritage is still beyond the interests of historians of Russian thought. Golovnin’s activity as Minister of …
Chaadaev’s work and its interpretationin the intellectual culture of the Silver Age
Peter Y. Chaadaev (1794‒1856) is a key figure of Russian philosophy. His experience of theorizing about subjects of the highest order – God, man, knowledge, history, and religion – is still a historical and philosophical problem that does not allow us to fully understand the mystery of Chaadaev’s creativity, which has the thickness of a cultural myth. From our point of view, the Chaadaev theme in the history Russian thought is not only the ques…
The Paradoxes of Religious Consciousness
The article is devoted to the analysis of N.A. Berdyaev’s perception of L.N. Tolstoy’s work. Berdyaev’s philosophical criticism of the writer requires close attention and research because it allows us to formulate the most important question about philosophical vocabulary of Russian religious thinker. The essay examines not only Berdyaev’s critical interpretation of Tolstoy in its movement, but also the personal perception by the philosopher o…
Philosophical Travelogy as a Cultural and Political Research Method
This article is devoted to new books written by Alexey Kara-Murza, a Russian philosopher and political scientist. Kara-Murza is the author of numerous works on the philosophy of Russian history and culture and Russian social thought, successfully working in the original genres of philosophical travelogy and philosophical local history. Russian-European and Russian-Italian cultural interactions have been the subject of Alexey Kara-Murza’s scientif…
New People in Russian History (Ivan Turgenev’s Virgin Soil)
This paper discusses a controversial statement of some Russian critics about the “failure” of Turgenev’s Virgin Soil and its interpretation in Russian intellectual and political history. These views are revised with reference to Turgenev’s philosophical ideas on the Russian Enlightenment project, Russia’s historical development, its national culture and spiritual ideals. The author considers the national tradition of reading Virgin Soil and deter…
Russia and the Revolution
This article discusses Stepun’s philosophical and sociological approaches to Russian history and culture. The subject of the analysis is the historical and artistic image of Russia created by Stepun in philosophical journalism and memoirs. A special place is given to the revealing of the foundations of Stepun’s philosophy of culture, as well as to develop specific ways of analyzing the cultural history of Russia by synthesizing philosophical refl…
From Art History to Sociology of Art and Cultural Studies
The article is devoted to the problem of contemporary studies in artistic culture and art. The current change in the methodological paradigm in social and humanitarian knowledge concerning the subject of art is considered through the example of a new monograph written by Nikolay A. Khrenov, a Russian culture expert, philosopher and scholar in the sociology of art. The book Art in a Situation of Cultural Theory Turn: Methodological Searches provid…
Russia and the Revolution
This article discusses Stepun’s philosophical and sociological approaches to Russian history and culture. The subject of the analysis is the historical and artistic image of Russia created by Stepun in philosophical journalism and memoirs. A special place is given to the revealing of the foundations of Stepun’s philosophy of culture, as well as to develop specific ways of analyzing the cultural history of Russia by synthesizing philosophical refl…
New People in Russian History (Ivan Turgenev’s Virgin Soil)
This paper discusses a controversial statement of some Russian critics about the “failure” of Turgenev’s Virgin Soil and its interpretation in Russian intellectual and political history. These views are revised with reference to Turgenev’s philosophical ideas on the Russian Enlightenment project, Russia’s historical development, its national culture and spiritual ideals. The author considers the national tradition of reading Virgin Soil and deter…
Chaadaev’s work and its interpretationin the intellectual culture of the Silver Age
Peter Y. Chaadaev (1794‒1856) is a key figure of Russian philosophy. His experience of theorizing about subjects of the highest order – God, man, knowledge, history, and religion – is still a historical and philosophical problem that does not allow us to fully understand the mystery of Chaadaev’s creativity, which has the thickness of a cultural myth. From our point of view, the Chaadaev theme in the history Russian thought is not only the ques…
The Paradoxes of Religious Consciousness
The article is devoted to the analysis of N.A. Berdyaev’s perception of L.N. Tolstoy’s work. Berdyaev’s philosophical criticism of the writer requires close attention and research because it allows us to formulate the most important question about philosophical vocabulary of Russian religious thinker. The essay examines not only Berdyaev’s critical interpretation of Tolstoy in its movement, but also the personal perception by the philosopher o…
Philosophical Travelogy as a Cultural and Political Research Method
This article is devoted to new books written by Alexey Kara-Murza, a Russian philosopher and political scientist. Kara-Murza is the author of numerous works on the philosophy of Russian history and culture and Russian social thought, successfully working in the original genres of philosophical travelogy and philosophical local history. Russian-European and Russian-Italian cultural interactions have been the subject of Alexey Kara-Murza’s scientif…
On the Way to Free Thought
In the history of Russian philosophy there is no key figure of intellectual culture of the second half of the XIX century, which is associated with the development of academic philosophy in universities. A.V. Golovnin (1821–1886) is not included in the historiographical canon of Russian thoughtThe paper shows that Golovnin's intellectual heritage is still beyond the interests of historians of Russian thought. Golovnin’s activity as Minister of …
Dialogic Aesthetics in Boris Zaitsev’s Russian-Italian Text
This article examines the interconnection of the images of Russia and Italy in B. K. Zaitsev’s artistic consciousness revealing their ideal-forming meaning and studying the literary and aesthetic concept of the writer. It is argued that the themes of Russia, Italy, and Florence dominate in the writer’s work, making up the internal semantic unity of his multi-genre texts. The “Florentine text” is interpreted as a local textual subsystem of the “It…
Semiosis of Russian Culture and the Philosophy of Creativity in the Works of Yu.M. Lotman
The most important result of the semiotic conceptualization of the artistic process in Lotman’s research was the interpretation of literary phenomena in a broad historical and cultural context. This led him to create a holistic cultural philosophical concept. Its model is the Russian culture of the classical era, interpreted as an established historical phenomenon in the diversity of spiritual and intellectual traditions and practices. At the s…
Freedom, creativity, spirit
The monothematic coherence of ideas and concepts is a unique feature of N.A. Berdyaev’s philosophy. This peculiarity is provided by the constantly recurring and variably developing themes of freedom and creativity, manifested in the works of the pre-revolutionary period and received conceptual religious and philosophical development in the eschatological metaphysics of the spirit. The struggle for “metaphysical idealism” became his main life’s …
From Art History to Sociology of Art and Cultural Studies
The article is devoted to the problem of contemporary studies in artistic culture and art. The current change in the methodological paradigm in social and humanitarian knowledge concerning the subject of art is considered through the example of a new monograph written by Nikolay A. Khrenov, a Russian culture expert, philosopher and scholar in the sociology of art. The book Art in a Situation of Cultural Theory Turn: Methodological Searches provid…
Image, symbol, visage
This article is devoted to identifying the features of F.A. Stepun’s creative evolution, which resulted in the philosophical concept of Christian culture and history. At the center of consideration of philosopher is the phenomenon of culture as a condition and path of ascent to the Absolute. Stepun thinks of culture as the universal beginning of human sociality and creativity in the historically specific form of its existence. The article shows t…
Russian Religious Thought in Modern Research and Education
The article is devoted to current discussions in the field of Russian religious philosophy research and teaching practices in Russian state and confessional universities. It summarizes the discussion of theoretical and practical aspects of studying Russia’s philosophical heritage and its tradition of religious thought, which were discussed at the Round table “Russian Religious Thought in Modern Research and Education: Philosophy, Theology, Philos…
Russian History in a Philosophical Perspective (Reflections on the Book) On the 70th Anniversary of Aleksei A. Kara-Murza
The article is a critical and philosophical analysis of a new book by the Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksei A. Kara-Murza. His fundamental work “Selected Works on Russian Philosophy, Politics and Culture” (2024) contains articles in the field of philosophy of Russian history, completed by the author over the course of ten years. Essays, sketches, memoir and biographical texts, travelogues and philosophical and local history stud…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Literature (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Consciousness (4 works) · Creativity (4 works) · Russian culture (4 works) · Social science (4 works)