Kant’s Studies in Ukrainian Philosophy of Soviet Period

by Vadym Tytarenko¹ and Sergii Rudenko^2
1 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
² Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: http://doi.org/10.29202/fhi/9/11
Received: January 25, 2018; / Accepted: March 9, 2018 / Published: April 14, 2018

This writing is devoted to the brief review of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy studies and receptions of his philosophical concepts within the Ukrainian philosophy of Soviet period. Such attempt is actually pertinent because nowadays we definitely need to reconsider the soviet philosophical heritage for better understanding the real value of any philosophical conclusions and worldview-concerning statements which were made in the times of soviet ideology hegemony. Additionally, mentioned reconsidering is presently urgent because Ukrainian intellectual culture is now looking for its identity and is trying to identify the stillremaining ideological totalitarian elements which spoil the originality and objectiveness of its products.The present review attempts to identify which totalitarian intentions and prejudices were used to interpret and evaluate the Immanuel Kant’s heritage in the texts written by several selected Ukrainian philosophers of the Soviet period. Nevertheless, it’s obvious that absolutely impossible to avoid talking about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophical position interpretation by the same authors. Kant’s and Hegel’s soviet-Ukrainian interpretations were often connected, because there was a general trend of soviet Marxist history of philosophy to interpret Kant as the “worse” version of Hegel. To fulfill the general image of Kant’s philosophy interpretation in Ukrainian philosophy and its future perspectives, this paper also delivers some common information about the whole historical path of Kant’s interpretations and receptions.

Keywords: history of philosophy, Ukrainian philosophy, Soviet philosophy, German classical idealism, Immanuel Kant, totalitarianism, culture.

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