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Other relevant keywords: Emigration, Existentialism, Hope, Psychology, Secularism, Self-knowledge   Anthony Bloom (Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh) (1914–2003) Expatriate theology made an important contribution to Russian intellectual history of the second half of the twentieth century, in that it demonstrated that Orthodoxy is not an outdated and purely formal system of dogma. Indeed, Orthodoxy has been subject ..

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Other relevant keywords: Aesthetics; Creativity; Personality; Social Conditioning; Society, Totalitarianism   Lidiya Ginzburg (1902–1990) Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg was a literary scholar, known as the most talented student of the Russian Formalists. She was also an author of innovative, analytical prose both philosophical and almost social-scientific, which inhabits the boundaries between the genres of autobiography and ..

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Other relevant keywords: Abstraction, Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Community, the Concrete, Cosmology, Dialectics, Disability, Education, the Ideal, Logic, Materialism, Science, Transindividuality   Evald Ilyenkov (1924–1979) The ability to see the world like a human means to see through the eyes of another person, through the eyes of all other people. (Ilyenkov, Ob idolakh i idealakh 100) ..

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Other relevant keywords: border, pessimism   Boris Khazanov (1928–2022) Boris Khazanov (a pseudonym of Gennady Faibusovich), a writer and an essayist, is one of the most significant representatives of Russian–Jewish philosophical personalism. Born in Leningrad, he was educated in classical philology at Moscow State University and was arrested in 1949 for “anti-Soviet” activity. Upon his ..

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Other relevant keywords: Existentialism, Narod (people), Tragedy, Zen   Grigory Pomerants (1918–2013) Of all late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russian thinkers, Grigory Solomonovich Pomerants was the most persistently engaged in social debates about the value of personality and about the threats posed by totalitarian and post-totalitarian society. Pomerants was a philosopher and Orientalist by education. He graduated from ..

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