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Women Philosophers and Russia
Series: - Contemporary Russian Philosophy, Volume: 9
Despite their strong leadership presence in Soviet academia, women philosophers have remained largely unrecognized for their original thought, remembered instead as translators, teachers, and caretakers of ideas. Women Philosophers and Russia both situates and analyzes the philosophical contributions of female philosophers – and the significance of women’s issues more broadly – in intellectual history from the imperial to post-Soviet eras. Bringing together an interdisciplinary collective of sixteen scholars, the volume examines the ideas, careers, and lives of thinkers like Zinaida Stolitsa, Vera Volkovich, Ayn Rand, Liubov Akselrod, Olga Tankhilevich, Nelly Motroshilova, Piama Gaidenko, Aleksandra Kollontai, Marie Goldsmith, Myrrha Lot-Borodine, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lidiya Ginzburg, and Zinaida Mirkina, redefining the contours of philosophical inquiry in the process of bringing their ideas to light.
Tatiana Levina is a visiting researcher of the CUPOLA project at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, specializing in the contributions of female philosophers in Soviet-era philosophy.
Alyssa DeBlasio is Professor of Russian and John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Dickinson College (USA). Her research sits at the intersections of literature, film, and philosophy.
Oksana Goncharko is a specialist in the history of logic and Platonic philosophy in Byzantium and its reception in post-Byzantine traditions, as well as in the history of non-classical logics and argumentation theory from Antiquity up through the late Soviet era, with an emphasis on women’s contributions.
Alyssa DeBlasio is Professor of Russian and John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Dickinson College (USA). Her research sits at the intersections of literature, film, and philosophy.
Oksana Goncharko is a specialist in the history of logic and Platonic philosophy in Byzantium and its reception in post-Byzantine traditions, as well as in the history of non-classical logics and argumentation theory from Antiquity up through the late Soviet era, with an emphasis on women’s contributions.
Foreword
Anne Eakin Moss
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Women in (and out of) Philosophy
Tatiana Levina, Alyssa DeBlasio, and Oksana Goncharko
1 Man-God, Educational Reform, and the Soul of the Nation: the Theories of Zinaida Stolitsa and Vera Volkovich
Maxim Demin
2 Ayn Rand as a Russian Philosopher
Anastasiya Grigorovskaya
3 Liubov Isaakovna Akselrod: a Free-Thinking “Orthodox”
Daniela Steila
4 Olga Tankhilevich: Woman, Political Activist, and Philosopher Caught in the Grinders of Repression
Pavlo Maiboroda and Oksana Goncharko
5 Nelly Motroshilova, Piama Gaidenko, and Russia’s Philosophy of the Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Periods
Marina F. Bykova
6 Two Revolutions for the Price of One: Aleksandra Kollontai
Evert van der Zweerde
7 Anarchism through Biology: Marie Goldsmith’s Liberatory Science in Practice
Søren H. Hough and Christopher Coquard
8 The Woman Motif in the Works of Myrrha Lot-Borodine
Teresa Obolevitch
9 Dialogue in Sofia Gubaidulina’s Film Music
Olga Lyanda-Geller
10 Lidiya Ginsburg: an Outside View from a Place Within
Victoriya Faybyshenko
11 Zinaida Mirkina: Translating from the Divine into the Human
Daria Solodkaya
Index
Anne Eakin Moss
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Women in (and out of) Philosophy
Tatiana Levina, Alyssa DeBlasio, and Oksana Goncharko
Part 1: Education for Women
1 Man-God, Educational Reform, and the Soul of the Nation: the Theories of Zinaida Stolitsa and Vera Volkovich
Maxim Demin
2 Ayn Rand as a Russian Philosopher
Anastasiya Grigorovskaya
Part 2: Between Materialism and Idealism
3 Liubov Isaakovna Akselrod: a Free-Thinking “Orthodox”
Daniela Steila
4 Olga Tankhilevich: Woman, Political Activist, and Philosopher Caught in the Grinders of Repression
Pavlo Maiboroda and Oksana Goncharko
5 Nelly Motroshilova, Piama Gaidenko, and Russia’s Philosophy of the Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Periods
Marina F. Bykova
Part 3: Political Philosophy
6 Two Revolutions for the Price of One: Aleksandra Kollontai
Evert van der Zweerde
7 Anarchism through Biology: Marie Goldsmith’s Liberatory Science in Practice
Søren H. Hough and Christopher Coquard
Part 4: Philosophy of Art, Literature, and Music
8 The Woman Motif in the Works of Myrrha Lot-Borodine
Teresa Obolevitch
9 Dialogue in Sofia Gubaidulina’s Film Music
Olga Lyanda-Geller
10 Lidiya Ginsburg: an Outside View from a Place Within
Victoriya Faybyshenko
11 Zinaida Mirkina: Translating from the Divine into the Human
Daria Solodkaya
Index
This volume will interest scholars and students in philosophy, intellectual history, Russian studies, religious studies, music studies, and gender studies, especially those exploring twentieth-century and philosophical thought in late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.