Tag: Atheism

Mikhail Epstein’s Religion after Atheism and the Russian “Argument from Personhood”

Posted 02/06/2023 by NURPRT Forum

This paper was part of the opening roundtable celebrating Mikhail Epstein at the Inaugural Conference of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought which took place at the Northwestern University, April 2023. The roundtable included Caryl Emerson, Alyssa deBlasio, Victoria Juharyan, and the author of this paper, Randall A.

Alexandre Kojève on Terror

Posted 13/04/2023 by NURPRT Forum

This paper was given at the international symposium, Russian Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought in a Time of Catastrophe, which took place at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, March 2023 by Jeff Love. Alexandre Kojève writes in Atheism (1931) that the “human being in the world” is “given to herself as a potential suicide, and