Michail Ryklin
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Michail Ryklin
Michail Ryklin was born in Leningrad in 1948 and now lives in Berlin. He is one of the most prominent contemporary thinkers in Russia, with an equally intense first-hand knowledge of life in Western culture and in the Russian context. A former assistant to Jacques Derrida in Paris, he had been a professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow for decades. Michael Ryklin was awarded the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding in 2007.
Michail Ryklin was born in Leningrad in 1948 and now lives in Berlin. He is one of the most prominent contemporary thinkers in Russia, with an equally intense first-hand knowledge of life in Western culture and in the Russian context. A former assistant to Jacques Derrida in Paris, he had been a professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow for decades. Michael Ryklin was awarded the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding in 2007.
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Year of Publication: 2008
Michail RyklinYear of Publication: 2008
Communism as Religion
The Bolsheviks were inspired by the faith – a kind of secular religion – in the possibility of radically changing their backward feudal society. From the outset, they declared an inexorable war on...
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Croatia (Fraktura), Greece (Epikentro)
Year of Publication: 2006
Michail RyklinYear of Publication: 2006
By Right of Being Stronger
In January 2003, the art exhibition »Attention, Religion!« organized in the Sacharov Center in Moscow was trashed. Yet it was not the miscreants who were subject to public despise and legal persecution, but the exhibition organizers and the artists. In a law suit that grabbed the headlines they were accused of »insulting the religious feelings of the Russian people« and threatened with jail...
Year of Publication: 2003
Michail RyklinYear of Publication: 2003
Spaces for Celebration
Moscow-based philosopher Michail Ryklin is the most prominent contemporary thinker in Russia, and the only intellectual with an equally intense first-hand knowledge of life in Western culture and in...
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Spanish world rights (Herder), Italy (Bollati Boringhieri)