Department of History of Foreign Philosophy
Head of Department
Liakh Vitalii V. - Professor, DSc (Doctor of Philosophical Sciences)
Head of Sector of History of Eastern Philosophy
Yarosh Oleh A. - Senior Researcher, PhD (Candidate of Philosophical Sciences)
Since its establishment in 1968, scholars of the Department of the History of Foreign Philosophy have studied the philosophy of the West and the East, with a focus on contemporary problems, as well as the history of philosophy. For details on the history of the department, see https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/download/52/53/96.
The Department has published more than 170 issues of the Multiversum almanac, since 1998 (editor-in-chief – V. Liakh). For more details, see the journal website: https://multiversum.com.ua/index.php/journal.
The Sector of History of Eastern Philosophy is a structural unit within the Department. It was founded in 2006, following Vitalii Liakh’s initiative. Oleg Yarosh (PhD) is the current Head of the Sector. For more information on the work of the Sector, see https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/download/442/417/753.
The Seminars of Eastern philosophies researchers are regularly initiated and conducted by the Sector. In 2006, the Society of Eastern Philosophies Researchers was established (https://www.tdsf.kiev.ua/index.php). The main task of the society is the development and promotion of philosophical oriental studies as a relatively new direction in Ukrainian science.
The Department has published more than 170 issues of the Multiversum almanac, since 1998 (editor-in-chief – V. Liakh). For more details, see the journal website: https://multiversum.com.ua/index.php/journal.
The Sector of History of Eastern Philosophy is a structural unit within the Department. It was founded in 2006, following Vitalii Liakh’s initiative. Oleg Yarosh (PhD) is the current Head of the Sector. For more information on the work of the Sector, see https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/download/442/417/753.
The Seminars of Eastern philosophies researchers are regularly initiated and conducted by the Sector. In 2006, the Society of Eastern Philosophies Researchers was established (https://www.tdsf.kiev.ua/index.php). The main task of the society is the development and promotion of philosophical oriental studies as a relatively new direction in Ukrainian science.
The Phenomenon of Identity in Historical-Philosophical Discourses (2017-2019; 2 monographs and 20 articles)
The Transformation of the Concepts of Freedom in Historical-Philosophical Research (2020-2021; 2 monographs and 24 articles)
The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Evolution of Ideas and Methodological Principle (2022-till present)
The Sector of Eastern Philosophy scholars have studied the following topics:
The "Orientalist Paradigm" in the Eastern Philosophies Studies of the 19-20th centuries (2016-2019; 1 monograph and 22 articles)
Wisdom and Success as the Factors of Human Perfection in Eastern Philosophical Traditions
(2019-2022; 2 monographs and 23 articles)
Collective and individual monographs and scientific articles have been published on the research topics; they are available on the H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy NACU website and in the electronic archives (on request).
The Transformation of the Concepts of Freedom in Historical-Philosophical Research (2020-2021; 2 monographs and 24 articles)
The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Evolution of Ideas and Methodological Principle (2022-till present)
The Sector of Eastern Philosophy scholars have studied the following topics:
The "Orientalist Paradigm" in the Eastern Philosophies Studies of the 19-20th centuries (2016-2019; 1 monograph and 22 articles)
Wisdom and Success as the Factors of Human Perfection in Eastern Philosophical Traditions
(2019-2022; 2 monographs and 23 articles)
Collective and individual monographs and scientific articles have been published on the research topics; they are available on the H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy NACU website and in the electronic archives (on request).
The main works published by the Department (in Ukrainian; all the collective monographs ed. by V. Liakh):
The publications in English (2018-2024):
- Value Orientations (Analysis of Social and Philosophical Concepts of the West in the 80s and 90s). 1995.
- Reconstruction of Worldview Paradigms (the New Trends in the Western philosophy), 1995.
- Translations: Modern foreign social philosophy. Reader. 1996.
- Phenomenology of Human Existence: Modern Western European Philosophical Reflection. 1999.
- Society on the Threshold of the 21st Century: A Philosophical Understanding of the Changing World. 1999.
- Worldview and Methodological Innovations in the Western European Philosophy. 2001.
- Humanism: Contemporary Interpretations and Perspectives. 2001.
- Philosophy of Tourism: educational manual. 2004.
- Ontology of a Man: educational manual. 2004.
- Freedom: modern dimensions and alternatives. 2004.
- Information society in socio-philosophical retrospect and perspective. 2009.
- Philosophical discourses of rationality. 2010.
- Yosypenko O.M. (2012). From the language of philosophy to the philosophy of language. The problem of language in French philosophy of the second half of the 20 and early 21 centuries.
- Value orientations of the modern information society. 2013.
- Zavhorodniy Y. (2013) Reception of Indian philosophy in Ukraine. Lineage of the Vedas (1840–1930s).
- Zavhorodniy Y. (2013) The Place of philosophy in the intellectual traditions of the East.
- Justification of values: modern philosophical discourses. 2016.
- Socio-Cultural and Theoretical Foundations of Postmodern Philosophy. 2017.
- Transformation of the Foundations of Philosophy in the Postmodern Era. 2018.
- Usyk A. (2018) Intentions of Formation of Traditional Chinese Morality. transcendental-deconstruction discourse.
- Strelkova A. (2020) Buddhism: philosophy of emptiness.
- Yarosh O. (2020) Islam in the public sphere: theories and social practices.
- Ilyina A.V. (2020) Transcendentalism par excellence: a deconstructionist perspective.
- Identity crisis: historical and philosophical context.
- Ilyina A.V. (2022) The theoretical dimension of the problematization of freedom in the transcendental-deconstruction discourse
- Practical dimensions of freedom in historical and philosophical discourses. 2023.
- Yarosh O.A., Zavhorodniy Y.Y., Strelkova A.Y. etc. (2023) "Orientalist paradigm" in the study of philosophies of the 19 - the first half of the 20 century.
The publications in English (2018-2024):
- Liakh V.V., Khylko M. I. J.-P.Sartre’s Humanism in the Context of Modern Anthropological Situation. Anthropological measurements of philosophical research 2019, 16, 69-78. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i16.188890.
- Liakh V.V., Lukashenko M.V. Philosophical Analysis of a Person’s Self-Reflection in the Context of Internal Dialogue (Based on «The Dispute of a Man with His Ba»). Anthropological measurements of philosophical research 2020. 17, 18-27. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i17.206671.
- Liakh V.V. Charles Taylor’s Ideal of Modern Identity in the Context of the “Liquid Modernity” Realities. Anthropological measurements of philosophical research 2022, 21, 103-114. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i21.260348.
- Lyubiviy Y.V., and Samchuk R.V. Virtualization of Identity in the Context of Self-Realization of a Personality. Anthropological measurements of philosophical research 2020, 18, 102–112. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i18.221397.
- Lyubiviy Y.V. Samchuk R.V. The Role of Reflexive Identity in the Age of Civilizational Transformations. Anthropological measurements of philosophical research 2022, 22, 49–57. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i22.271326.
- Balinchenko S. New locals or the newly-migrantized? The markers of the internally displaced populations’ visibility in Ukraine / Przeglad Wschodnioeuropejski. 2023, 14(1), 59-71. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31648/pw.9022.
- Yarosh O. Globalization of redemptive sociality: al-Ahbash and Haqqaniyya transnational Sufi networks in West Asia and Central-Eastern Europe. Journal of Eurasian Studies 2019, 10 (1), 22-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/1879366518814915
- Liakh V.V. Lukashenko M.V. Transsociality as Uncertainty or Incertitude of the Human Condition. Skhid 2022, 3 (2), 22-27. https://doi.og/10.21847/1728-9343.2022.3(2).263743.
- Lyubiviy Y. Pragmatic and Valuable understanding of the Phenomenon of Freedom in the Times of Crisis. Multiversum. Philosophical Almanac 2023, 1(177)-1, 3-26. https://doi.org/10.35423/2078-8142.2023.1.1.1.
- Bazaluk O., Balinchenko S. Reintegration perspectives for Ukraine: Civic education-related challenges. Book Chapter. Progress in Education 2021, 66, 69-97.
- Balinchenko, S. Co-responsibility and (super)diversity: philosophical aspects of the contemporary discussions on integration. Multiversum. Philosophical Almanac 2019, 5-6, 3-22. https://doi.org/10.35423/2078-8142.2019.5-6.01.
- Balinchenko, S. Conflict-Related Democracy Predictors in Ukraine: Tolerance and Participation Tendencies in Migration-Affected Communities. Ukrainian Policymaker 2019, 5, 4-16. https://doi.org/10.29202/up/5/1.
- Balinchenko, S. Mythologeme-Related Crisis of Identity: Reality and Fictional Markers of Alienation. Future Human Image 2019, 11, 5-13. https://doi.org/10.29202/fhi/11/1.
- Bazaluk O., Balinchenko S. The Ethics Laws as a Basis for Building a Cosmic Civilization. The Sofia Republic // Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 24, 2020: 131-139. http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2020/01/PhC_24_BazalukBalinchenko.pdf.
- Bazaluk O., Balinchenko S. Dynamic Coordination of Internal Displacement: Return and Integration Cases in Ukraine and Georgia. Sustainability 2020, 12(10), 4123; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104123https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/10/4123.
- Balinchenko, S. (In)visibility of the Displaced Populations: the Blind-Spot Effect/ Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 2021, 47(2), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.15388/SocMintVei.2020.2.24.
- Balinchenko, S. A dynamic approach to localness in the context of conflict-affected internal displacement and return in Ukraine. SN Soc Sci 1, 52 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00057-1.
- Balinchenko S. From Paradise Lost to Paradise Conceptually Postponed: What Makes Scenarios of the Futures Being Staged. Philosophy and Cosmology 2022, 28, 51-62. https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/28/5.
- Zavgorodniy Y., Smitskiy I. Hinduism in Ukraine: From Ancient Times to Present Day. In: Handbook of Hinduism in Europe. Vol. 2: Hindu Presence in European Countries. Ed. by Knut A. Jacobsen and Ferdinando Sardella. Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2020. pp. 1525–1559. ISBN: 9789004432284
- Shevchenko, S. Self-Identity Through the Prism of Other in Merold Westphal's Existential Philosophy of Religion. The Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 2019,18 (53), 156-170. ISSN: 1583-0039
- Yarosh O. Religious authority and conversions in Berlin's Sufi communities. In: Moving in and out of Islam, edited by K. van Nieuwkerk, UT Press, 2018, 179-203. https://doi.org/10.7560/317471-009.
- Yarosh O. Universal Sufism and the Cultic Milieu in Russia at Turn of the xx Century. Mondi 2019, 2, 101-120. http://www.mondi.academy/index.php/Mondi/issue/view/3/Oleg%20Yarosh
- Yarosh O. Political Conflict in Ukraine and Its Impact on the Muslim Communities: Local Developments and Transnational Context, [in:] Muslim Minorities and the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Marta Pachocka, Jan Misiuna (eds), Warsaw: SGH Publishing House, 2019, 167-179. https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/project-result-content/9713f090-e52a-42b3-8efc-4a28778d0b2e/121_VIII_19_Muslim_minorities_Gorak-Sosnowska.pdf.
- Yarosh O. Sufi Communities in the West: Charisma and Institutionalization. In: The Islamic World in Contemporary and Historical Perspective. Ed by Agata S. Nalborczyk, Izabela Kończak, Magdalena Lewicka. Łódź: Łódź University Press, 2020, 73-82. https://wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl/produkt/the-islamic-world-in-contemporary-and-historical-perspective/
- Yarosh O. Reflexive Spirituality in Late-modern Society: The case of Western Sufism. In: Max Weber. Nowoczesność, religia, odczarowanie / red. Michał Warchala. Kraków, Nomos, 2021, 195-213. https://ifis.up.krakow.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2021/06/st.pdf.
- Yarosh O., Yakubovych, M. // Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 13/ Stephanie Müssig, Egdūnas Račius, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Jørgen S. Nielsen, and Oliver Scharbrodt (Eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2021, 675-689. https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/61349.
- Yarosh O. Contestualizzazione del respiro yogico nelle comunità sufi occidentali. Mefisto. Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia 2021, 5 (2), 87-104. https://www.edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n=9788846762788.
- Yarosh, O. Ukraine. In: Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Volume 14. Ed. by Samim Akgönül, Jørgen S. Nielsen, Ahmet Alibašić, Stephanie Müssig, and Egdūnas Račius. Leiden: Brill, 2022, 698–712, https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/62880.
- Yarosh, O. The Plurality of Islamic Officialdom in Ukraine. In: Muslims of Post-Communist Eurasia, edited by Galina Yemelianova and Egdunas Racius, Routledge, 2022, 117-136, https://www.routledge.com/Muslims-of-Post-Communist-Eurasia/Yemelianova- Racius/p/book/9780367547974?srsltid=AfmBOor9AKcCy4zeZma-4wX4I2PzPM2ZT0iGnSzJP4znbhBE9dv9fRg0.
- Balinchenko S. New locals or the newly-migrantized? The markers of the internally displaced populations’ visibility in Ukraine / Przeglad Wschodnioeuropejski. 2023, 14(1), 59-71. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31648/pw.9022
- Yosypenko O. Reception in philosophy as a social phenomenon: an attempt at theorisation. Philosophical thought 2024, 3, 141-154. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2024.03.141.
The staff of the Department
Head of Department of History of Foreign Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor (DSc)
Leading researcher, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, professor (DSc)
Leading Researcher, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (DSc)
Senior Researcher, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (DSc)
Senior Researcher, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (PhD)
Researcher, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (PhD)
Junior Researcher
The staff of the sector
Head The Sector of History of Eastern Philosophy, Senior Researcher, (PhD)
Senior Researcher, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (DSc)
Senior Researchers, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (DSc)
Senior Researcher, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (PhD)
Senior Researcher, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (PhD)
Senior Researcher, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (DSc)
Junior Researchers, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (PhD)
Contacts
Adress: 4, Tryokhsviatitelska str., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine
Tel.: (044) 279-32-82 (reception of the director)
Tel.: (044) 278-06-05
E-mail: instphil@ukr.net
Adress: 4, Tryokhsviatitelska str., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine
Tel.: (044) 279-32-82 (reception of the director)
Tel.: (044) 278-06-05
E-mail: instphil@ukr.net