Svetlana Klimova
- Laboratory Head:Faculty of Humanities / Laboratory of Transcendental Philosophy
- Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
- Svetlana Klimova has been at HSE University since 2014.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
- 2008Professor
- 2004
Doctor of Sciences* in Theory and History of Culture
Moscow Teacher Training University
Thesis Title: Phenomenology of Holiness and Passion in Russian philosophy of culture - 1995Associate Professor
- 1991
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
- 1983
Degree
M.A. Suslov Rostov-on-Don State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
Advanced training course "Gamification in online learning" 2021
Courses (2023/2024)
- From European Romanticism to Russian Realism and New Religious Consciousness (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Religious Studies: History, Theory, Field (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
- Religious Studies: History, Theory, Field (Optional course (faculty); 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- From European Romanticism to Russian Realism and New Religious Consciousness (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Religious Studies: History, Theory, Field (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Religious Studies: History, Theory, Field (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-4 module)Rus
- Religious Transformations in Europe and Worldwide in XIX-XXI centuries. Secularization, Reformist Movements and Post-secular Cultures. (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Genres and Methods of Philosophical Research" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Russian Thought in Quest of the Meaning of Life (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- Reseach Seminar "History of Philosophy: Texts and Interpretations" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Reseach Seminar "Logic, Epistemology and Methods of Philosophical Research" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Russian Thought in Quest of the Meaning of Life (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2016
Философия Э.В. Ильенкова и современность: материалы XVIII Международной научной конференции «Ильенковские чтения» (Белгород). Presentation: Личность Э.В. Ильенкова в стилистике его работ
МатериалыIX Международной научной конференции "Лев Толстой и мировая литература" (Ясная Поляна ). Presentation: Из Царства разума к философии Жизни Льва Толстого
- 2015
XV Международные Лихаческие Научные Чтения (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Визуализация похорон в контексте российского национального самосознании
- 2014
Религия и культура в русской мысли (Краков). Presentation: Третий путь русского интеллектуализма
Международная научная конференция "Лев Толстой и мировая литература" (Ясная Поляна ). Presentation: Из Царства разума к философии Жизни Льва Толстого
Publications17
- Article Klimova S. Valentin Asmus’s first book in émigré and in Soviet criticism in the 1920s // Studies in East European Thought. 2023. Vol. 75. No. 4. P. 575-588. doi
- Article Klimova S. “Time is our litmus test”: the philosophical world of Valentin Asmus // Studies in East European Thought. 2023. Vol. 75. No. 4. P. 567-574. doi
- Article Klimova S. Spinoza and Tolstoy in Valentin Asmus’ comparative analysis // Studies in East European Thought. 2022. Vol. 74. No. 3. P. 345-357. doi
- Article Klimova S. L.N. Tolstoy: Enstrangement , Politics, Religion // Russian Studies in Philosophy. 2021. Vol. 59. No. 5. P. 362-380. doi
- Article Klimova S. On Reason and the Power of Life (Tolstoy contra Spinoza): (Lev Tolstoy against Spinoza) // Problemos. 2021. Vol. 100. P. 127-138. doi
- Article Klimova S. The Ethico-religious Imperatives of Lev Tolstoy’s Life and Work // Russian Studies in Philosophy. 2021. Vol. 59. No. 5. P. 345-350. doi
- Book Klimova S. Russian Intelligentsia in Search of an Identity (Between Dostoevsky’s Oppositions and Tolstoy’s Holism) Vol. 355: Contemporary Russian Philosophy. Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2020.
- Article Klimova S. “Thinking eternally and continuously.” The Russian Experience of Mamardashvili // Studies in East European Thought. 2019. Vol. 71. No. 3. P. 199-215. doi
- Article Klimova S. Mikhail Lifshits’ logomythy: ‘‘the art of discrimination’’ // Studies in East European Thought. 2016. Vol. 68. No. 4. P. 283-293. doi
- Chapter Klimova S. The Third Path of Russian Intellectualism, in: Faith and Reason in Russian Thought. Kraków : Copernicus Center Press, 2015. P. 231-241.
- Chapter Klimova S. Кантемир, супраморализм, карамазовщина, in: Идеи в России, Ideas in Russia, Idee w Rosji Vol. 9. Lodz : Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2015. P. 134-144.
- Chapter Klimova S., Bardykova I. Modern Slavistics outside Russia in Quest of “the real Dostoevsky”, in: Russian Thought in Europe. Reception, Polemics, Development. Kraków : Akademia Ignatianum, 2013. Ch. 2. P. 161-173.
- Article Klimova Svetlana, Molostova E. «Scientific atheism» in Action: Soviet Sociology of Religion as an Agent of Marxism-Atheism Propaganda from the 1960-s to the 1980s. // Forum Philosophicum. 2013. Vol. 18. No. 2. P. 169-191.
- Article Klimova S. Outlines of National Self-Consciousness. From Sobesednik to Sovremennik // Social Sciences. 2012. Vol. 43. No. 3. P. 45-55.
- Chapter Klimova S. The Russian and Polish Existentialism as mirrored by the «Jewish Problem» (the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries), in: The Influence of Jewish Culture on Intellectual Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe. Kraków : Wyższa szkoła filozoficzno-pedagogiczna “Ignatianum” Wydawnictwo WAM, 2011. P. 79-89.
- Article Klimova S. College students' attitudes toward religion // Russian Education and Society. 2009. Vol. 51. No. 6. P. 80-89.
- Article Klimova S. Conceptualizing Religious Discourse in The Work of Feodor Dostoevskij // Studies in East European Thought. 2007. Vol. 59. No. 1-2. P. 55-64.
Why Badly Trained AI Is a Bigger Threat Than a Robot Uprising
At the present level of AI development, humanity doesn’t have to worry about a machine uprising just yet. However, the use of improperly trained AIs in important fields and attempts to use it to exercise control over people’s lives may pose a real threat in the near future. This was the topic of a seminar on ‘The Unexpected Threats of AI’ recently hosted by the HSE University Laboratory of Transcendental Philosophy.
Results of Competition for Research and Teaching Laboratories Announced
This year, HSE has supported the founding of 10 new Research and Teaching Laboratories (RTLs) in various fields, from cognitive psychology and computer modeling, to international justice and economics of sports.
International Scientific Conference "S.L. Frank: Postrevolutionary Downfall of Idols"
On November 23-24, 2017 there was held the international scientific conference "S.L. Frank: Postrevolutionary Downfall of Idols", organized by the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue.
Svetlana Klimova’s article «Mikhail Lifshits’ logomythy: “the art of discrimination”» in “Studies in East European Thought”, 2016
The article reconstructs an original concept of myth developed by Mikhail Lifshits. He invented the term “logomythia”, as the “art of discrimination”, to show the ambivalent nature of creative work, where archaic myth dies as a historical nonsense and resurrects as a human meaning. Logomythia demonstrates the overcoming of the irrational element in the life of societies by linking it to the rational or meaningful content of artistic images. And, on the other hand, the concept contains more than a hint of the crisis of rationalism in the twentieth century which destroyed the harmony of man with nature.
Articles by Svetlana Klimova in ‘Ideas of Russia’
The University of Warsaw and the Institute of Philosophy issued the ninth volume of the Russian, Polish and English textbook ‘Ideas in Russia’. Articles by Svetlana Klimova, professor at the School of Philosophy, are included in the book.