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  • Dmitri Nikulin

    Professor of Philosophy; Director of Undergraduate Studies and Departmental Faculty Advisor for Philosophy

    Email
    nikulind@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - Albert & Vera List Academic Center - 6 East 16th Street

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    Dmitri Nikulin

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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 Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

    Recent Publications

    Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2019. 

    Productive Imagination: Its History, Meaning and Significance, (co-editor, with Saulius Geniusas). Rowman & Littlefied International, 2018.

    The Concept of History, Bloomsbury, 2017.

    "Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity (co-editor, with Cinzia Arruzza). Brill, 2016.

    Memory: A History, ed. Oxford University Press, 2015.

    Comedy, Seriously: A Philosophical Study. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

    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. C.H. Beck, 1996.    

    Research Interests

    Philosophy and history of science of antiquity and early modernity, philosophy of dialogue, philosophy of history.

    Current Courses

    Collaborative Senior Project
    LPHI 4995, Spring 2022

    Hermeneutics
    GPHI 6782, Spring 2022

    Ind Senior Project
    LPHI 4990, Spring 2022

    Independent Study
    LPHI 3950, Spring 2022

    Independent Study
    GPHI 6990, Spring 2022

    Prospectus Seminar
    GPHI 6548, Spring 2022

    Future Courses

    Independent Study
    GPHI 6990, Summer 2022, Summer 2022 - Paris

    Past Courses

    Aristotle's Ethics
    GPHI 6090, Fall 2021

    Collaborative Senior Project
    LPHI 4995, Spring 2021

    Ind Senior Project
    LPHI 4990, Fall 2021, Spring 2021

    Independent Study
    GPHI 6990, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Summer 2021

    Independent Study
    LPHI 3950, Fall 2021, Spring 2021

    Philosophy of History
    GPHI 6591, Spring 2021

    Philosophy of History
    LPHI 4020, Spring 2021

    Prospectus Seminar
    GPHI 6548, Fall 2021

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