At the Vanishing Point in History

Marina F. Bykova is Full Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA, and the Editor-in-chief of Studies in East European Thought and Russian Studies in Philosophy.

• At the Vanishing Point in History:Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine WarTable of Contents Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAt the Edge of the Abyss: The Countdown BeginsMarina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University, USA) PrologueDoors of Hell: New Russian ApocalypticismMikhail Epstein (Emory University, USA)Part I. Unlearned Lessons From Russia’s Bloody History The War on Progress and the Missed Opportunities of Russian EnlightenmentMarina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University, USA) Between Nationalism and Universalism: The Imperial Imagination from Vladimir Solovyov to Alexandre KojèveBoris Groys (European Graduate School, Switzerland)The Defeated Judge the Victors, or Bolshevism in post-October Russian ThoughtAlexander L. Dobrokhotov (King's College London, UK)War in Ukraine and the Ethics of Pragmatism Dmitri N. Shalin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)Against the West: The Weimar Republic and Post-Soviet Russia in the Yeltsin Era as Aggrieved PowersLeonid Luks (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt,Germany), Part II. The War of ObsessionThe “End of History” or the End of the Human Race? Rereading Fukuyama and HuntingtonDuring Russia’s War Against UkraineMikhail Sergeev (University of the Arts, Philadelphia,USA)Point of Madness and the Search for History’s MeaningMikhail Blumenkranz (Independent Scholar, Germany)Nostalgia, Trickster, and the WarMark Lipovetsky (Columbia University, USA)The Return of the Grand InquisitorMaja Soboleva (University of Marburg, Germany)The Viscosity of Russian Space: An Essay in Structural AnalysisHelen Petrovsky (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)Part III. Does Russia Have a Future?Cyclical Progress. The Eternal Return of ModernityVladimir Marchenkov (Ohio University, USA)Being Guilty, Feeling Guilty: Right and Morality in Russia in the Shadow of the Current WarMichail Maiatsky (University of Fribourg / University of Lausanne, Switzerland)Russian Ouroboros Mikhail P. Shishkin (Freelance Writer, Switzerland)Defederating RussiaAlexander Etkind (Central European University, Vienna, Austria)

During Russia’s many periods of revolution, (civil) war, and repression, critical intellectuals have produced famous volumes like Vekhi (1909), Iz glubiny (1918), and Iz-pod glyb (1974). Regrettably, we face such a dark period again, but, fortunately, there are critical Russian intellectuals who have revived, with this volume, their strong tradition