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The Inquisitor’s Gambit

Sisyphus by Franz Stuck

The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the first in a new series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication.  What

CFP: Second Annual Conference of the NURPRT: Celebrating Gary Saul Morson: Humanistic Traditions in Russian Thought and Literature

Call for Papers We would like to invite you to the second annual conference of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought (NU RPRT Research Initiative), to be held at Northwestern University on April 19–20, 2024. The conference, Celebrating Gary Saul Morson: Humanistic Traditions in Russian Thought and

ASEEES 2023 Digital Conference NURPRT Panels

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A Quick Guide to ASEEES 2023 Digital Conference NURPRT Panels: Please find below a guide to panels in which members of our Initiative are participating for the Virtual Conference being held October 19 – 20, 2023. If any panels are missing please contact Peter Winsky (winskypg@gmail.com) and he will add them to the guide. To

Call for Papers: Nicolas Berdyaev and Russian Philosophy in the West

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Nicolas Berdyaev and Russian Philosophy in the West 12–14 June 2024 Krakow Meetings on Russian Philosophy Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought 2024 will mark the 150th year since Nicolas Berdyaev’s birth. On 12–14 June 2024

Postmodernist thought of the late Soviet period: three profiles

Kabakov, Sketch for Fly as the Subject and Basis for Philosophical Discourse

The following article, written by Mikhail Epstein, was first published in Studies in East European Thought volume 73 (2021) and is republished here with the permission of the author. Abstract This article introduces postmodernist trends in late Soviet thought through the prism of the three generations: the philosopher and writer Aleksandr Zinoviev (1922– 2006), the poet, artist, and