Arsenij Gulyga: Immanuel Kant. Eine Biographie. Suhrkamp taschenbuch 2004.

Aus dem Russischen und mit einem Nachwort von Sigrun Biefeldt. Suhrkamp taschenbuch, 2004. Excellent condition,397 pages.

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According to Gulyga, the mission of Russian religious philosophy, as well as Orthodoxy, is to form national identity. This idea is clearly expressed in his last book, The Russian Idea and Its Creators. The key idea of this publication can be formulated as following: The most important idea within practical philosophy is the fate of the homeland (rodina) (18). For this reason, the book has attracted attention not only as an introduction to Russian religious philosophy from Dostoevsky to Losev, guided primarily by the question of the eternal in Russian philosophy (to use Boris Vysheslavtsevs formulation), but also as an explication of Gulygas civic position, which was based on Christian orthodox values and traditional Slavophile-Cosmist axioms. One of the most valuable contributions of this book is the way it restored the equilibrium between two branches of the history of philosophy, the German and the Russian traditions, a task that Gulyga made the guiding force of his professional life. We can turn to the words of Mischka Dammaschke and Wladislaw Hedeler to summarize Gulygas role in the history of Soviet philosophy: Throughout his life, Arseny Gulyga was a bridge builder between the Russian and German philosophical worlds of thought (920).

Maja Soboleva, June 2018