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Non-institutional Philosophizing in Russia: the 1990s - 2020 (a Research Review)

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The author presents a review of research literature on the analysis of the sphere of informal philosophizing in Russia of the last thirty years. He discusses the genesis and content of the idea of non-institutional creative philosophizing in the works of famous modern Russian philosophers. He notes that philosophical self-identity in today’s Russia is characterized by uncertainty, uncertainty, and mobility. This is directly related to such phenomena as the rapid collapse of book culture, the change of mediums of communication, a clear decrease in the abstracting-reflective component of thinking and the audiovisual turn. The author presents both the review generalized studies of intellectual life and non-institutional philosophizing in modern Russia, as well as works examining the features of theoretical platforms unformal philosophical groups.

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Krasikov, V. Non-institutional Philosophizing in Russia: the 1990s - 2020 (a Research Review). Philosophia 50, 909–924 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00463-y

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