Mikhail Minakov
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Mikhail Minakov (Ukrainian: Михайло Мінаков; born on 6 October 1971, Leninsk, Volgograd obl., Russia/USSR) is a philosopher, political scholar and historian (researcher of the history of modernity and post-Soviet ideologies), Doctor of Philosophy.[1] His studies focus on human experience, social knowledge, phenomenon of ideology, political creativity, and history of modernization.
He is also Head of the Ukrainian Research Program at the Kennan Institute (since 2018), Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2008-2018,[1] Chairman of the Kant Society in Ukraine (2013-18), Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ideology and policy.[2]
Early life and education
Minakov was born in the vicinity of Volgograd, Russia/USSR. His parents were teachers. They moved to the village of Vidradne in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR/Ukraine, in 1973.
He graduated from the Zaporizhzhya Medical School in 1990 and worked as a village feldsher in the same oblast. As a student, he started studying history, sociology and archeology at Zaporizhzhya State University. In 1992, Minakov was accepted into Kyiv-Mohyla Academy where he studied philosophy, political science, sociology and comparative literature.
Career
In 2001, Minakov received his degree at the Skovoroda Kyiv Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. After that he joined Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kiev, Ukraine) as Assistant Professor. In the same year, he published his first book.[3]
From 1998 to 2018, he taught at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, at the same time working in international educational and development programs.
In 2007, he was promoted to the post of Associate Professor and published his second book History of the Concept of Experience. That year Minakov received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy.
Between 2010 and 2014, Minakov cooperated with several Western universities and research centers: Harvard University (visiting scholar in 2010 and 2013, visiting professor in 2012), Greifswald University (visiting professor in 2010 and 2014).
In 2011, Minakov became an Editor-in-Chief of a scholarly peer-reviewed journal Ideology and Politics.
Since 2016, he has been teaching at the Viadrina European University (Germany).
Since 2017, Minakov has been working at the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[4] His theoretical works and empirical research focus on the problems of ideology, political imagination, pluralistic ontology and human historicity.
Social activities
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador to Ukraine (2017-2018);[5]
Senior Researcher and Editor-in-Chief Kennan Focus Ukraine (since 2017)
Private life
Minakov lives in Kyiv and Milan.
He is married for the second time and he has a daughter.
His hobbies are photography, numismatics, sports.
Bibliography
Author of five books and more than a hundred articles on political and cultural analysis, philosophy and history.[6]
- Development and Dystopia. Studies in post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (in English), Stuttgart: ibidem, 2018.
- Kant’s Applied Enlightenment (in Russian), in: Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, #1, 2016.
- A Decisive Turn? Risks for Ukrainian Democracy After the Euromaidan, in: Carnegie Regional Insight, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 3, 2016.
- New Ukrainian Exceptionalism (in Eng, in co-authorship with Matt Rojansky), in: Yale Global, 23 June 2015.
- 'Post-Soviet parliamentarian drama: a view from ‘the gods’ in Kiev, in: openDemocracy, February 23, 2016
- The Event Of Primary Experience And Philosophy. Metatheory Of Experience In Kant And Quine’s Epistemologies (in Ukr.), Sententiae, 2015, #2, 64-74.
- Dictionary of Misprints, in Russian: Толковый словарь опечаток (Kyiv, Tsekh, 2008, second edition: Kyiv, Tsekh, 2010).
- History of the Concept of Experience, in Ukrainian: Історія поняття розуму (Kyiv, Centr praktychnoyi filosofii, 2007).
- Kant’s Teaching on Faith of Reason, in Ukrainian: Вчення Канта про віру розуму (Kyiv, Centr praktychnoyi filosofii, 2001).
External links
'Post-Soviet parliamentarian drama: a view from ‘the gods’
References
- ^ a b "Minakov — Doctor of Philosophy".
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The Ideology and Politics Journal |". The Ideology and Politics Journal. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
- ^ Kant’s Teaching on the Faith of Reason’ (in Ukrainian)
- ^ "Mykhailo Minakov | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
- ^ "Посланці миру: Кого обрали з відомих українців". 5 канал (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2021-04-15.
- ^ "Фонд якісної політики". web.archive.org. 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2021-04-15.