The East European nations' common past in the Soviet Union connects them in terms of both their
political histories and the evolution of their philosophical thought. The USSR's dissolution
created new opportunities domestic and international in science politics and business.
De-Sovietization meant for philosophy that it lost its former significance as a
political-ideological tool of the authorities and its previous role in society. Philosophers
of the former Soviet bloc now found themselves able to communicate with colleagues around the
world. This volume's chapters analyze the renewal of the philosophical enterprise over the last
thirty to forty years in Belarus Georgia Latvia Lithuania Moldova Russia Ukraine and
Uzbekistan. Among its authors are Yevgeniy Abdullaev Viktoras Bakhmetjevas Alexandru Cosmescu
Maija Kule Denys Kiryukhin Giorgi Khuroshvili Mikhail Maiatsky Tatyana Shchittsova and
Mikhail Minakov.This book is a long-needed assessment of the transformations of philosophy
after the fall of the Soviet Union when a wide range of possibilities opened up for
philosophical thinking.-Daniela Steila University of Turin This book offers an excellent
handle with which to grasp the inherent difficulty of reconciling states civil societies and
academic knowledge in fraught national settings. -Diana Pinto Historian Nothing can help us
more incisively than this book to grasp how thinking though imperceptible and immaterial can
be put and kept in chains or can suddenly break free from chains.-Alessandro Ferrara
University of Rome Tor VergataThe book offers new and original cartography of the post-Soviet
intellectual space and its development.-Nikolaj Plotnikov Ruhr-University BochumBut what
happened to philosophy in Soviet hands when the Soviet Union faded away? The answer is in this
volume.-Ivan Krastev Centre for Liberal Strategies in SofiaThe book is a must-read not only
for those who are interested in a deep understanding of post-Soviet philosophy its history
and its place in the world but also for those who want to truly explore the inner side of
post-Soviet being and consciousness.-Julie Reshe University College Cork and University
College DublinIt is this overview of the new critical potentials in the post-Communist East
that makes the book an obligatory reading for all who care about our common destiny.-Slavoj
Zizek University of London University of Ljubljana
