Volodymyr Volkovskyi, PhD in Philosophy. Born in Kyiv (Ukraine). Between 2005 and 2010, he earned his master’s degree in philosophy from the Institute of Philosophical Education and Science at the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University. Between 2010 and 2013, he was a postgraduate student at the Department of History of Philosophy of Ukraine at the H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy. In 2015, he defended his PhD thesis “The Formation of the Idea of Society in the Political-Philosophical Thought of Ukraine in the 19th Century”. Since 2013, he has been working at the H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, currently as a researcher. In 2020-2021, he led a research group working on a research project under the grant for young scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the topic ‘The Doctrine of the Russian World as a Cultural and Information Strategy’. Since 2022, he has been an associate fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 2023-2025, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for Ukraine grantee under the title ‘Exceptionalism in Ukrainian Politico-Philosophical Thought of the 19th Century’.
He became a member of the MAR (Workshop for the Academic Study of Religions) in 2007, when he was a student. He has participated in various MAR Summer Schools of Religious Studies, as well as summer schools of the Department of Philosophy at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
He is a lecturer in sociology and philosophy of religion at the Kyiv Three Holy Hierarchs Major Seminary and the St. Thomas Aquinas Institute of Religious Sciences.
Fields of research: political philosophy (in particular, Nationalism & Postcolonial Studies), philosophy of religion, history of Ukrainian philosophy (19th–20th centuries), Ukrainian politico-philosophical thought in the diaspora, the doctrine of the ‘Russian world’, civil religion.
e-mail: dinginnalu@gmail.com
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Key publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4674-3956 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b56d76sAAAAJ&hl=uk
Books and Chapters:
Volkovskyi, V., Idea of Sociality: Political Philosophy in Ukraine 19th century, Kyiv, Academperiodyka, 2017.
Volkovskyi, V., Ukrainophilist Discours of 19th century: Points for Discussion on Ukrainian National Idea”, Transformation of the Ukrainian National Idea / ed. O. Doniy, Kyiv: Nash format, 2019.. (co- author)
Volkovskyi, V., Філософські діалоги’2021. ”Русский мир” як доктрина: витоки, загрози, методи. Зб. наук. праць (Special edition of scientific journal: Philosophical dialogues’2021. “Russian World” as a doctrine: origins, threats, methods. Conference Proceedings). Kyiv, 2021. 140 p. ISSN 2706-802X (editor and co-author)
Volodymyr Volkovskyi, Andriy Smirnov. “Covid-19 and war: the online church in the perspective of the Apocalypse)”, Ukrainian Christianity in the digital world: challenges and perspectives / edited by A. Smirnov. Ostroh: Publishing House of the National University “Ostroh Academy”, 2022. pp. 39 – 89.)
Articles:
Volkovskyi, V. (2024). From people to nation: the Prague period of the history of Ukrainian political philosophy. Filosofska Dumka, (3), 27–54. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2024.03.027
Volkovskyi, V. (2024). Exceptionalism as a tool for studying the history of Ukrainian political philosophy of the Nineteenth century. Multiversum. Philosophical Almanac, 1(1), 111-136. Retrieved from https://multiversum.com.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/556
Volkovskyi, Volodymyr, and Marychka Androshchuk. 2024. “Series of Theological Methodological Seminars: Public Theology in the Context of Overcoming the Totalitarian Past”. Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology 22 (1):290-96. https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2024.22.1.25
Volkovskyi, V. (2023) “”Russian World” as a modern Russian civil religion: the political and philosophical dimension of the study”, Multiversum. Philosophical almanac, 2(1), pp. 3-33. doi: 10.35423/2078-8142.2023.2.1.1.
Volkovskyi, V., Samchuk, R. (2023) “Whether ‘Philosophy after Bucha’ is possible: philosophical and theological considerations”, Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education, 29(1), pp. 22–51. doi: 10.31874/2309-1606-2023-29-1-2.
Volkovskyi, V. (2020) “National Philosophical Traditions as a Source of Memory and Reconciliation: on the ground of 19th century Ukrainophilia discourse”, Multiversum. Philosophical almanac, 1(2), pp. 97-110. doi: 10.35423/2078-8142.2020.1.2.06
Volkovskyi, V. (2019). The Fate of Philosophy in the Post-Truth Era: Servant of the King or Clown on the Agora. Ukraina moderna. The Case of Philosophy in Modern Ukraine, 26/2019, 80-98.