Sovereign philosophy

In Russian philosophy-a split because of the war. We tell you what is happening

In recent weeks, Russian media, public figures, and even deputies are unprecedentedly talked a lot and write about philosophy. The reason for such attention was the conflict around the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences - “terrible abscess”, “the last refuge of villains, traitors, foreign agents, defectors, Russophobes and extremists,” as the widow of one of the famous Soviet philosophers Alexander Zinoviev Olga described it. At the resonant press conference in TASS, she proposed to check the employees of the Institute “for Loyalty to the interests of Russia” using a lie detector. One of their main enemies of the Z-philosophers call doctors of sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Julia Sineokoy, who opens against the war and publicly opposes Alexander Dugin. At the request of the Cold, Sineokoy talks about the largest conflict in the midst of decades among Russian intellectuals.

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How Z-philosophers equated the dismissal of one person to the " surrender of Kherson "

What is happening inside the professional community of Russian philosophers is a mirror of everything that happens in Russian science in general. The academic community has always consisted of people of different value orientations. The demarcation became tough after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and after the start of a full -scale war, the contradictions aggravated.

The marginal position of Alexander Dugin ( “If we do not finish IF RAS now, IF RAS will end with us tomorrow” ) ceased to be marginal. Representatives of the philosophical establishment began to join it - for example, a senior researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University Yuri Pushchaev, who recentlythought : “Can you imagine that they [researchers of liberal views] can arrange if they really return as power? It will be just a pogrom where the ban on the profession will be opponents, one must think, is not the worst option yet. ”

The lakmus of the adequacy of the philosophical community was the dismissal of posts at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Chernyaev - candidate of philosophical sciences, an ardent supporter of the war, the expert of "Tsargrad" and the participant in the conference "Philosophy on the Front line" in November 2022 in the occupied Donetsk. As the same Dugin spoke about him: "The loss of Chernyaev is Kherson's delivery."

Actually, since 2020, Chernyaev was fired from the institute three times. And always on the New Year. The first time he did not extend the contract in December 2020 for practically filling out two projects he overshadowed by him dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the institute.

The second dismissal happened in December 2021, only a week after Chernyaev's career take -off. On December 21, he was appointed Acting Director of IF RAS. The Ministry of Education and Science and the Presidential Administration thus evaluated his zealous cooperation with the Tsargrad television channel and the Zinovievsky club (the association of conservatives and statesmen, named after the famous Soviet philosopher Alexander Zinoviev. - approx. "Cold") .

Immediately after taking office, Chernyaev brought with him to the institute of the lawyer of Constantinople, retired colonel Vyacheslav Razgulov. Obviously, the task of the new leader was to make an ideological stronghold from the Academic Institute for the impending invasion of Russia to Ukraine. Alexander Dugin then stated that the position occupied by Russian philosophers in relation to the West is no less important than the position of generals of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

But the philosophical community rebelled. The emergency general meeting of employees of the institute almost unanimously (with one abstent) voted for the removal of Chernyaev from the post of the acting director. He was left as a leading researcher at the sector of the history of Russian philosophy.

With the outbreak of war, Chernyaev actively performed in the turbopatriotic media with the “exposures” of research programs by IF RAS and with denunciations of his colleagues. According to the direct head of Chernyaev, the head of the history of Russian philosophy, Vladimir Sidorin, Chernyaev could no longer have any research work: “Over the past two years, this employee [Chernyaev] invariably demonstrated that an employment contract for him is not meaningful: the labor duties were assigned to him, it is possible to come to work only on grant matters.”

The exhaustive list of Academic achievements of Chernyaev in the last two years was presented in his blog by an officer of the People’s Police of the DPR with a philosophical education Andrei Korobov-Latyntsev: “He is the only employee of the institute who was in the Donbass, and almost the only one of the employees who openly and actively supported his own. He held in Moscow at the beginning of 2022 a round table dedicated to his. He participated in the philosophical cathedral " The Great Russian Correction of Names ."

Finally, for the third time, Chernyaev was dismissed from IF RAS on December 21, 2023, now from the post of leading researcher, in connection with the end of his employment contract. They could not forgive this wiren thinkers in any way. In the period from the Catholic by Orthodox Christmas, several dozen texts were issued on the mountain, different in genre, but uniform in content. This time, the main goal of all these efforts was an attempt to achieve from the authorities to close the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and if it turns out, then the RAS Sun.

At the forefront of the Klyatznikov, as expected, the founding fathers were the founding of “Russian military philosophy”. Alexander Dugin in his telegram channel called the dismissal of Chernyaev a terrorist attack and called for "protecting Chernyaev in the same way as we protect Gorlovka." With the Institute of Philosophy, he demanded to act "as with Bakhmut, until Wagner has not yet been taken." The Korobov-Latin people mentioned in his telegram channel that “the main philosophical institution of our state turned into a nursery of frankly hostile ideas” and does not want to engage in “the implementation of the great Russian correction of names”. The prolific philosopher-publicist Alexei Chadaev and the head of the Department of Philosophy of the Institute of Culture Vladimir Varava spoke out for the creation of a new, alternative institution of philosophy.

The words of the right -wing philosophers were supported by the leader of Fair Russia Sergey Mironov, who turned to the general prosecutor and the Minister of Science with a request to check the legality of the dismissal of Anatoly Chernyaev.

Philosophers - in camps

By the end of the second year of the war, the domestic philosophical community was finally divided into three camps. The first is a rather large group of passive conformists, employees of universities and research institutes working in Russia. They are silent about the war and relevant events and for the most part are busy eliminating the comments of endless unscheduled inspections, reports and preparation for historical anniversaries.

But there are two truly active groups. The first is opponents of the war in Ukraine and repression within Russia. For the most part, it is composed of researchers and teachers who have left Russia working at universities and research centers around the world. A serious role in the consolidation of opposition philosophers is played by the Association "Independent Institute of Philosophy" (iPhi), created in Paris and uniting today more than 100 colleagues. IPhi members are Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, European and American scientists of different generations

Every month, IPHI holds a seminar "Philosophical tools for analyzing modern problems." The author of this text is its organizer and moderator. This seminar is an answer to those who accuse modern philosophy of fixation on abstract problems, divorced from real life. The goal of discussions is to comprehend modern social and political disasters. Many reports of the seminar participants are associated with Russia and the war in Ukraine. The project “Dictionary of the political language of Putin's Russia” is exploring the current language of officialdom. IPhi studies the so -called ideology of exclusivity, which justifies the war, understands Russian gender chauvinism and the reasons for the revival of Soviet rhetoric and values.

The second camp is “legionnaires of Russian philosophy” (as they call themselves) are active supporters of the war and developers of “Russian military philosophy”: Alexander Dugin, Vladimir Varava, Alexander Sekatsky, Fedor Girenok, Igor Evlampyev, Nikita Syundyukov, Nikolai Harutyunov and the philosopher-the officer of the People’s Police of the DPR Andrei Korobov-Latinsev. These people created several centers that have no academic status, nor scientific affiliation, but engaged in aggressive propaganda of war and ultra -right ideology.

The starting event of this group was the program online conference "Philosophical Cathedral. Great Russian correction of names. " Its organizers were the media holding "Tsargrad", the association "Sun of the North", the Donetsk philosophical society, the Donetsk Higher Combined Arms Command School and the Russian Publishing House "Russian Philosophy". Unlike a ghost collection with the same name, videos of this conference are available on the Internet.

Participants in the conference “The Great Russian Correction of Names” intend to create a new Russian imperial philosophy designed to legitim “Switch” and form a new attitude to the West, develop a plan for solving the “Ukrainian question” in the context of Russian civilization, and rethink the concepts of “war” and “peace”. All speakers were united in understanding philosophy as a territory of war, not a world (dugin), pacifism as an “euthanasia of the spirit” and the betrayal of man (Varava), as well as that the place of the philosopher is at the front (Korobov-Latin). The “legionnaires” determine their role as: “To be the most active warriors in the ongoing war of Russian civilization with the civilization of the West.”

They call their like -minded people and teachers Nietzsche (“A real war is a war of ideas, and the war in Ukraine is the battle of the Russian Logos with the Liberal of the Liberal West and Globalism”) and Heidegger (“The Russian people are dasein; everyone who allows themselves to philosophize not on behalf of the Russian people is an existential enemy located in the service of the Western elite”).

Anatoly Chernyaev, who did not speak at the conference, post -facts published his “Project of the Sovereign of Russian Mentality”, which, according to the annotation, “reveals the key support points of the enemy, which mentally occupied the Russian intelligentsia: ethics of non -violence, the theory of fair war, gender theory, environmental ethics, globalism, analytical philosophy, aesthetics postmodernism, theory of totalitarianism, multiculturalism, post -humanism. "

Two camps - two books

The main book of the Russian philosophical community in 2023 was the anti -war collection “In the face of a disaster” , published by Nikolai Plotnikov in Berlin. The electronic version of the book was available, but the paper version turned out to be a rarity in Russia. Soon after the release “in the face of the disaster”, deputy Andrei Lugovoi saw in her the discrediting of the army and complained to the prosecutor's office. A few months later, the Tagan court ruled that all the information contained in the collection was recognized as prohibited for distribution in the territory of the Russian Federation. Roskomnadzor, fulfilling the court decision, ordered to remove all responses and reviews of this collection from the Internet and public space, which even many Russian media that published critical reviews for this collection were forced to do.

The Bukinistic headliner on the other hand is the manifesto of Russian military philosophy “The Great Russian Correction of Names”, released by the ultra -right project “The Sun of the North” at the end of 2023. This book did not appear on the shelves of bookstores. On the Internet you can order it only by donating money to the front. There, according to the front, according to the anonymous author of the “Express analysis of the most significant theses” , the entire circulation of a rare collection is also spent, “replenishing the camp libraries of our battalions, which knock out the enemy from the Great Wild Field, walk the fields of Russian history, from the Holy Land of Novorossia” ( copyright punctuation is preserved ).

Summary philosophers: the Institute "Constantinople" and "Sun of the North"

In the spring of 2023, the Tsargrad media holding was opened by the Institute of Constantinople. The founding fathers of this structure Konstantin Malofeev (founder), Alexander Dugin (director) and close to them Sergey Glazyev (economist, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation.-Approx. "Cold") and Dzhambulat Umarov (Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic.-Approx. "Kholoda") , see the goal of the Russian imperial ideology and new science about the Imperial and Monarchical Indigenities Orthodox statehood - "basiliology." The instant classic of “basiliology” is a three -volume of Malofeev “Empire” and the monograph of Dugin “Genesis and Empire. Ontology and eschatology of the Ecumenical Kingdom. ”

The twin of the Tsargrad Institute is the space of the Sun of the North. Here all the right masters lead their courses: Alexander Dugin, Alexander Sekatsky, Roman Svetlov, Igor Evlampiev, Oleg Bakhtiyarov, Sergey Zhigalkin and others. For a similar price, they are ready to explain whatever: from quantum mechanics to alchemy, from hermeticism to Russian cosmism. Teachers are more modestly conducting free online courses. Among the heroes of their lectures, through a comma: Junger and Homer, the Italian Esoteric Evol and, of course, Dugin, who performs in a special project in two hypostasis at once - both as a subject and as an object. Here are a few examples of copyright educational projects: “Russian military philosophy” and “The Philosophy of War and Death” (Andrei Kolobov-Lyatintsev), “Metaphysics of the Empire” (Alexander Sekatsky), “ The History of Ukraine: From Kievan Rus to Zelensky ” (Vsevolod Veselov).

A separate area of ​​work of the “Sun of the North” is the organization of annual large philosophical cathedrals. Soon, collections of materials should be released on their basis. The first volume is dedicated to the memory of Daria Dugina, the second - the memory of Vladlen Tatar.

In 2024, one can expect the appearance of the third, already academically affiliated (at the Russian State University) institution under the leadership of Dugin: “The Higher Political School named after Ivan Ilyin”, the beloved philosopher Putin.

Without much success, it competes with the “Sun of the North” and “Constantinople” for a place in the ideological Z-Bomond Zinovievsky club. It operates with the support of Valery Falkov, Sergei Kiriyenko and the Russia Today media groups. The task of the minimum for the Zinovievites is the introduction of mandatory study in schools and universities of works, in fact, Alexander Zinoviev, whom the club participants call "Russian Confucius." The task of the maximum is to be an ideological, cultural and civilizational front of Russia against the “revival of Nazism in Ukraine and the West”, a defender of national interests and “intellectual sovereignty of Russia”.

The very last initiative of the Zinovievites was a press conference held on January 15, 2024 in TASS, dedicated to the “struggle of the Patriotic Philosophical Front against Western worship in the philosophical sphere” in the context of the next dismissal of Chernyaev. The practical result was “not an explosion, but a sob”: it was proposed to release 50 volumes of Russian philosophy (as in the 1990s), prepare anthologies and ackname for each of the “traditional” values ​​of Russia and replace the history of world philosophy with a course of Russian philosophy, if the presidential grant gives it, of course.

As for the fruits of their works, in addition to regular public denunciations and the publication of the heritage of Zinoviev, the club practiced variations on the abbreviation “Svo”, turning it into a formula: power of power, faith into victory, meaningfulness of ideology

All three institutions are coordinated against peace negotiations with Ukraine, for developing a war in Ukraine into the Third World and require repression within Russia.

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In a recent conversation, one colleague reminded me of a comforting formula that was not outdated in 2400 years: “During the deaf Soviet stagnation, without nourishing any rainbow hopes to fast changes, I translated Aristotle’s treatise“ About the sky ”, and I was struck by the remark abandoned by him:“ Nothing unnatural. ” The prophecy of Stagirite came true before anyone could expect. ”

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