Issue #33

Abstract: Faces of the Irrational: Collection of articles / ed. by I.V. Kuzin. — St. Petersburg: RKhGA Publishing House, 2021. — 188 p. The collection presents the phenomenon of the irrational through different historical stages and disciplinary fields: eroticism in Bataille, the will to life in Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, the argument of exclusion in Searle, human rights and the “bare life” of a refugee, the influence of the irrational on the media, ancient Egyptian views, the theory of “double truth”, etc.
Böhme Jakob. What is a Christian? Theosophical Epistles / transl. from German, ed. by I. Fokin. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Society of Martin Luther, Umozrenie, 2021. — 48 p. Includes two theosophical epistles by Jakob Böhme from 1622–1623: “On the Mortification of the Antichrist in Ourselves” and “What is a Christian?”. The epistles reveal the doctrine of the Divine Trinity and the concept of Ungrund (abyss). The edition is a translation from the 19th century German.
Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Faith and Knowledge / transl., comm., introd. by A.A. Ivanenko. — St. Petersburg: Umozrenie, 2021. — 384 p. A collection of Hegel’s early works: “The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s Systems of Philosophy” (1801), “Faith and Knowledge” (1802) and fragments from 1797–1800 on religion. The book shows the development of Hegel’s thought through the oppositions of faith and knowledge, religion and philosophy.
Dzhokhadze I. Brandom on Hegel: An Attempt at an Analytical Reading of the “Phenomenology of Spirit”. — Moscow: Canon+ ROOI “Rehabilitation”, 2021. — 224 p. The book is devoted to the rational reconstruction of the “Phenomenology of Spirit” carried out by the American philosopher Robert Brandom. It examines the interpretation of key concepts: recognition (Anerkennung), mediation (Vermittlung), alienation (Entfremdung), etc. A critical analysis of Brandom’s arguments is offered.
Granin Yu.D. The State of Modernity. National and Social Vectors of Evolution: Monograph. — Moscow: Academic Project, 2021. — 371 p. Based on the author’s interpretation of the term “state of modernity”, two vectors of the evolution of the “modern state” in Europe are reconstructed: “nationalization” and “socialization”. The philosophical foundations and paradigms of concepts of national and social states are studied, the ways of their formation, transformation into colonial empires, and the process of decolonization are analyzed. The prospects for the formation of a “Russian nation” and the transformation of the social state are discussed.