Where is the common ground? Interaction and transfer between European and Russian philosophical culture

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ID12190087
AuthorsE Van Der Zweerde (0000-0002-4786-6798, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume62
Issue3-4
Pages259-277
Publication date2010-10-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in East European Thought (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0925-9392 • E-ISSN: 1573-0948
PublisherSpringer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1007/s11212-010-9126-7
OpenAlexW2169080067
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

In this paper, I discuss and analyze three instances of exchange and interaction between Russian (incl. Soviet) and (West) European philosophical culture: the correspondence between Merab Mamardašvili and Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida’s visit to Moscow in 1990, and a joint Russian–German publication by Nikolaj Plotnikov and Alexander Haardt. The focus is on the implicit mutual perception of philosophical cultures and on the ‘micro-politics’ of discourse that is at stake in their interaction. Also, it is shown how different contexts—labelled ‘philosophical culture’, though not in any deterministic sense—are at work in the mutual perception between individual thinkers. Even if philosophical thinking tends to transcend the parameters of ‘glocal’ situations, this involves a job that needs to be done, individually and collectively, by the philosophers involved. Consequently, this dimension has to be taken into account when analysing such instances of encounter

Common ground · Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Literature · Perception · Philosophical analysis · Philosophical methodology · Philosophical theory · Political culture · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Russian culture · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci

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