Gustav Shpet's Contribution to Philosophy and Cultural Theory

Contributors

313 Contributors Robert Bird teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. His major interests include the literature and thought of Russian modernism, the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, and philosophical and theological aesthetics. Among his publications are two books, The Russian Prospero: The Creative Universe of Viacheslav Ivanov (University of Wisconsin Press) and Andrei Rublev (BFI Classics), and several major translations, including On Spiritual Unity: A Slavophile Anthology (with Boris Jakim) and Viacheslav Ivanov's Selected Essays (in collaboration with Michael Wachtel). Craig Brandist teaches in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield.Among his publications are the monographs Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel (1996), The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy, Culture and Politics (2002) and the co-edited volumes Materializing Bakhtin (2000, with Galin Tihanov) and The Bakhtin Circle: In the Master's Absence (2004, with David Shepherd and Galin Tihanov). He has been director of the major research project The Rise of Sociological Linguistics in the Soviet Union, 1917–1938: Institutions, Ideas and Agendas, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). Steven Cassedy teaches Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He has written about modern literary criticism, American Jewish culture, aesthetics, Christian theology, music, philosophy, and Russian literature . His most recent book is Dostoevsky's Religion. He is currently working on a comprehensive history of the turn of the twentieth century in the West. Maryse Dennes teaches Russian literature, culture, and intellectual history at the University Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3. Her main field of expertise is Russian philosophy and intellectual history in its interaction with German phenomenology. She is the author of 85 scholarly publications, among which is a book on Husserl's and Heidegger's impact on Russian philosophy, as well as numerous studies of Shpet, Solov'ev, Losev, Florensky, and Sergei Bulgakov. She is the co-author of the French translation of Shpet’s Iavlenie i smysl (forthcoming) and has also translated 314 Contributors' Profiles the poetry of Mayakovsky and Tsvetaeva, modern Slovak poetry and Russian scholarly prose. In 2007 she organized an International Conference on Gustav Shpet in Bordeaux and published the proceedings the following year in French (Slavica Occitania , 26). She is an honorary member of the Zenkovsky Society of Historians of Russian Philosophy in Moscow and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes académiques. Alexander Haardt teaches Post-Mediaeval Philosophy at the University of Bochum, Germany. Born in Vienna, he studied philosophy, Slavic Studies, and Indology at Vienna and Frankfurt. His doctoral thesis was on Kant, while his habilitation resulted in a book on Husserl's reception in Russia, with particular focus on Shpet and Losev (1993). In 1998-2000 he was President of the German Society for Phenomenological Research. Haardt is the author of numerous publications on the history of phenomenology of language and art in Germany, France, and Russia; he is also co-editor of the German translation of Shpet's "Germenevtika i ee problemy" (1993). George L. Kline has taught philosophy at Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania), and teaches history at Clemson University (South Carolina). He is the author of Spinoza in Soviet Philosophy (1952, rpt. 1981) and Religious and Anti-Religious Thought in Russia (1968); editor of Soviet Education (1957) and European Philosophy Today (1965); co-editor of Russian Philosophy, 3 vols. (1965, rpt. 1976, 1984), Iosif Brodskii : Ostanovka v pustyne [Joseph Brodsky: A Halt in the Wilderness] (1970, rpt. 1988, 2000) and Philosophical Sovietology: The Pursuit of a Science (1988); translator of V. V. Zenkovsky, A History of Russian Philosophy, 2 vols. (1953, rpt. 2003), Boris Pasternak: Seven Poems (1969, 1972), and Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems (1973, 1974). Kline has also written on Spinoza, Vico, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Lukács, Kolakowski, Losev, and Shpet. He is an honorary member of the Zenkovsky Society of Historians of Russian Philosophy in Moscow. Thomas Nemeth holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Louvain, Belgium. His postdoctoral studies took him to Australia (University of Melbourne) and to Germany where he was Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has published Gramsci's Philosophy: a Critical Study (1980) and several articles on Kant and Husserl in Russia. He is the translator of Gustav Shpet's Appearance and Sense (1991) and serves presently as subject editor for Russian philosophy at the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, to which he has also contributed a number of entries. Dušan Radunović teaches...