Dmitri Nikulin
Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Email
nikulind@newschool.edu
Office Location
Albert and Vera List Academic Center
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For me, philosophy stems from the experience of talking to others in an attempt to understand the other person, myself as the other, as well as the world. Even though such conversation can never be completed, it is still meaningful at any point, and can be always carried on. It is in such conversation that humans are recognized as people; to be is to be is to be in dialogue with the other, from which we draw our meaning and well-being.
Degrees Held
PhD 1990, Institute for Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Recent Publications
The Concept of History, Bloomsbury, 2017.
"Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity (Studies in Moral Philosophy Series)," co-editor with Cinzia Arruzza. Brill, 2016.
Memory: A History, ed. Oxford University Press, 2015.
The Other Plato. SUNY Press, 2012.
Dialectic and Dialogue. Stanford, 2010
On Dialogue. Lexington, 2006
Matter, Imagination and Geometry: Ontology, Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Plotinus, Proclus and Descartes. Ashgate, 2002.
Metaphysik und Ethik. Theoretische und praktische Philosophie in Antike und Neuzeit. München, 1996.
Research Interests
Philosophy and history of science of late antiquity and early modernity (17th century), philosophy of dialogue, philosophy of history and memory.
Awards And Honors
- Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation research grants at the Universities of Tübingen, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Marburg.
- Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Forschungskolleg), Bad Homburg.
Current Courses
Greek/Latin Reading Group
French Reading Group
German Reading Group
Radical Political Thought
Anxiety and Boredom
Independent Study
Radical Political Thought
Independent Study
Ind Senior Project
Collaborative Senior Project