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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.