Andrey Maidansky, 2010

RUSSIAN


Professor, Department of Philosophy
BELGOROD NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY

Associated Researcher, Institute of Philosophy
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

amaid@rambler.ru

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Doctor of Science – Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2000
Candidate of Science – Moscow State University, 1993
Philosophy Faculty, Rostov-on-Don State University, 1988



ASSOCIATIONS & FELLOWSHIPS

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal «Science. Art. Culture»
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal «Belgorod State University Scientific Bulletin: Philosophy. Sociology. Law»
Scientific Expert of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
Member of the Editorial Board of «Spinoziana» book series (Milano – Udine: Mimesis)
Member of the Dissertation Council in Philosophy, Belgorod State University
Member of the Organising Committee of the International Scientific Conference «Ilyenkov Readings»
Kone Foundation Fellow (Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2010)
Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Fellow (Helsinki, 2011-2012)
Torino University Visiting Scholar (2017)
Grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation for Humanities «Publishing Evald Ilyenkov’s archival works of 60-70s» (2017-2019)



LECTURE COURSES

Philosophy (1988-2014)
Classical German Philosophy (2014)
Marxist philosophy (2014)
History of Philosophy from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (2013-2014)
Philosophy and History of Science (2003-2014)
Philosophy of Society (2001-2003)
Philosophy of Culture (1997-1998)



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Russian

The descent of Spinoza’s definitions, «Vestnik MGU», series 7: Philosophy, 1, 1994
The reform of logic in the works of Descartes and Spinoza, «Voprosy Filosofii», 10, 1996
The Russian Spinozists, «Voprosy Filosofii», 1, 1998
The logical method of Descartes and Spinoza. Taganrog, 1998
Geometrical order and the logical method in Spinoza’s «Ethics», «Voprosy Filosofii», 11, 1999
The category of being in Spinoza’s «Ethics», «Voprosy Filosofii», 1, 2001
The concept of thought in Ilyenkov and Spinoza, «Voprosy Filosofii», 8, 2002
Reflections on destination of philosophy, «Alma Mater», 6, 2002
On nature thinking itself and on ideal reality, «Voprosy Filosofii», 3, 2004
Metamorphoses of the ideal, in: «The ideal: Ilyenkov and Lifshits». Moscow: RGGU, 2004
The objective teleology in Spinoza, in: «Historic-Philosophical Year-book 2003». Moscow: Nauka, 2004
Vectors and contours of knowledgeable society, «Vestnik MGUKI», 2, 2005
Principium coexsistentiae, or The story of a dream of Magister Immanuel Kant, «Voprosy Filosofii», 10, 2005
Mind and soul, «Chelovek», 1, 2006
The oldest biography of Spinoza, «Voprosy Filosofii», 10, 2006
On the active “side” of Spinoza’s teaching, «Logos», 2, 2007
The oldest biography of Spinoza & «Treatise on the improvement of intellect». Rostov-on-Don, 2007
Cognitio reflexiva: the concept of self-consciousness in Spinoza, in: «Philosophy of consciousness: classics and modernity». Moscow, 2007
Logic and phenomenology of the world history, «ΣΝ ΑΡΧΗ», 5, 2008
Vygotsky – Spinoza: A dialog through centuries, «Voprosy Filosofii», 10, 2008
Ascent to the ideal, «Logos», 1, 2009
How a thought was decomposing, «Logos», 1, 2009
Lecture within the framework of tacit knowledge, «Alma Mater», 5, 2009
The concept of truth in Ilyenkov’s dialectical logic, «Svobodnaya Mysl», 8, 2009
History and social ideals, «Voprosy Filosofii», 2, 2010
To define the human being, «Chelovek», 1, 2010
Philosophy of science. Moscow: Infra-M, 2010 (with S.N. Mareev, E.V. Mareeva)
Phenomenology of the world history: From Hegel to Marx, in: «Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Mind”
   within the framework of modern Hegel studies». Moscow: Kanon +, 2010
Spinoza’s “true logic”, «Istoriya filosofii», vol. 15, 2010
Economics and freedom in Marx’s “science of history”, «Logos», 2, 2011
Logic of Marx’s historical theory: the reformated formations, «Logos», 2, 2011
The concept of personality in cultural-historical psychology, «Svobodnaya Mysl», 10, 201
Soviet Spinoza: Faith searching for understanding, «Svobodnaya Mysl», 5-6, 2012
Reading Spinoza. Saarbrücken: LAP, 2012
Spinoza: pro et contra. St. Petersburg: RHGA, 2012
“It’s not gonna die out, dirty d-dog!”: Ilyenkov about state, «Svobodnaya Mysl», 4, 2013
Dialectics of the material, «Alternativy», 2, 2013

English

The reform of logic in the works of Descartes and Spinoza, «Russian Studies in Philosophy», vol. 37, no. 2, Fall 1998
The Russian Spinozists, «Studies in East European Thought», vol. 55, no. 3, September 2003
Metamorphoses of the ideal, «Studies in East European Thought», vol. 57, no. 3, September 2005
The Russian Spinozists, «Studia Spinozana», vol. 15. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006
Ascent toward the ideal, «Russian Studies in Philosophy», vol. 48, no. 4, Spring 2010
The logic of Marx's theory of history: Reforming formations, «Russian Studies in Philosophy», vol. 51, no. 2, Fall 2012
The concept of truth in Ilyenkov's dialectical logic, in: «Logic in Central and Eastern Europe: History, science, and discourse».
   New York: University Press of America, 2012
The dialectical logic of Evald Ilyenkov and Western European Marxism, in: «Russian Thought in Europe: Reception, Polemics,
   Development». Krakow: Akademia Ignatianum, Wydawnictwo WAM, 2013
Reality of the Ideal, in: «Dialectics of the ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and creative Soviet Marxism». Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014
Amor caecus: Solovyov draws Spinoza, «Faith and reason in Russian Thought». Krakow: Copernicus Center Press, 2015
The practical essence of man: The ‘activity approach’ in late Soviet philosophy (ed. by Andrey Maidansky & Vesa Oittinen).
   Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015
Reality as activity: The concept of praxis in Soviet philosophy, in: «The practical essence of man». Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015
The aesthetic realism of Mikhail Lifshits: art, history and the communist ideal, «Studies in East European Thought», vol. 69, no. 4, 2016
Mikhail Lifshits, an enigmatic Marxist, «Studies in East European Thought», vol. 69, no. 4, 2016 (with Vesa Oittinen)
Evald Ilyenkov’s ‘creative marxism’, «Historical Materialism», vol. 26, no. 4, 2018 (with Evgeni Pavlov)
Spinoza in cultural-historical psychology, «Mind, Culture, and Activity», vol. 25, no. 4, 2018
The ‘True Religion’ and the Philosophical God of Spinoza, «European Journal of Science and Theology», vol. 15, no. 6, 2019
   (with Igor Boichuk)
Evald Ilyenkov and Soviet Philosophy, «Monthly Review, vol. 71, no. 8, 2020 (with Vesa Oittinen)

German

Grundriß der Geschichte des russischen Spinozismus, «Der Russische Gedanke», 1/2, 1994
Russische Spinozisten des 20. Jahrhunderts, in: «Spinoza im Osten». Berlin: Edition Organon, 2005
Brief des Philosophen Iljenkow. Kommentar zur Publikation, «Marxistische Blätter», 1, 2006
Die revisionistische Revolution in den Vygotskij-Forschungen (Rezension), «Jahrbuch der Luria-Gesellschaft». Berlin: Lehmanns Media, 2019

Polish

Lifszyc Michal, in: «Idee w Rosiji. Leksykon rosyjsko-polsko-angielski», tom 8. Łódź: ‘Ibidem’, 2014
Iljenkow Ewald, in: «Idee w Rosiji. Leksykon rosyjsko-polsko-angielski», tom 9. Łódź: ‘Ibidem’, 2015
Konserwatywna rewolucja: Michaił Lifszyc w szkole Hegla, in: «Recepcja myśli Hegla w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej».
   Warszawa: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych, 2019

Greek

Η ανάβαση στο Ιδεατό, in: «Έβαλντ Ιλιένκοφ. Η διαλεκτική του ιδεατού». Τρίκαλα: Επέκεινα, 2016

Turkish

Sovyet Spinoza: Anlama Arayışındaki İnanç, in: Marx’tan Spinoza’ya, Spinoza’dan Marx’a Guncel Mudahaleler.
   Ankara: Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, 2013

Serbo-Croatian

Ìàðåjåâ Ñåðãåj Íèêîëàjåâè÷, in: «Åíöèêëîïåäè¼å ðóñêå ôèëîñîôè¼å (Äîïóíñêè òîì)». Áåîãðàä: Ëîãîñ, 2014



WEBSITES
 

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Reading Spinoza

Evald Ilyenkov
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