?
From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov
Brill, 2026.
Under the general editorship: Loesov S., С. Минов, А. Трейгер
Chapters
Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Rashid D., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026. P. 389–455.
This article explores examples of influence from the Arabic magical traditions, both Christian and Muslim, that can be found in modern Syriac magical manuscripts. The following aspects of Arabic influence are discussed: visual elements (diagonal writing, kharaktēres, pseudo-Arabic script), terminology, texts containing Arabic formulae, magical practices, angels and demons (Gabriel and Michael, Tebʿā), and magic ...
Added: May 1, 2025
Loesov S., Häberl C., Burlakov P. et al., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026. P. 449–462.
The following conversation was recorded during the second field season of the HSE
University Expedition to Qalamoun, on 4 May 2021, at the Šōʕra household in the village of
Maaloula.1 The dialogue features two speakers: “Ōbəl‿Adīb” Filīp Šōʕra (Arabic “Abū Adīb”
Filīp al-Šāʕir, born in 1939) and “Ōbəl‿Žaržūra” Dyāb Mōsa Bexet (Arabic “Abū Ǧurǧ” Ḏiyāb
Mūsā Baḫīt, born in 1952). Both ...
Added: November 6, 2025
Гришин Н. К., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026. P. 430–437.
The present study1 is inspired by Eugene Barsky and Sergey Loesov’s paper “A History of the
Intransitive Preterite of Ṭuroyo.” It focuses on the diachronic path of the *qattīl pattern
throughout Aramaic.
In this study, I compare the grammatical meanings of three deverbal predicates of Syriac, dāmeḵ,
dmeḵ, and dammīḵ, all of them being derivations of the verb root dmk “to sleep.” By its pattern
dāmeḵ is the ...
Added: November 6, 2025
Кашинцева К. В., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026.
This article explores the marking of adnominal possession in the Turoyo language. The language employs two sets of possessive suffixes (see Table 1 below) the distribution of which has been somewhat unclear. On the one hand, it has been suggested that these sets could be used interchangeably with nouns denoting body parts, kinship terms, and inherent ...
Added: November 1, 2024
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2019 Т. 23 № 1 С. 7–18
The article gives the detailed analysis of the ratio of freedom and imagination in an unpublished manuscript written by F.W.J. Schelling, which contains the materials for the lecture course read at Erlangen University in 1820-1821. The author focuses on the question of imagination as a condition for the possibility to unfold the modal differences that provide the ...
Added: October 7, 2026
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
Added: October 7, 2026
Новиков Д. А., ЖУРНАЛ МИНИСТЕРСТВА НАРОДНОГО ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЯ (Словакия) 2023 № 10 С. 32–40
The article provides a critical analysis of the theory of the precariat as a "new dangerous class" from the standpoint of law science, namely the sectoral areas of labor and criminal law. The author argues that the precariat does not constitute a new socio-economic class. The author is convinced that the theory of the precariat, ...
Added: October 5, 2026
Вебер М., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 318–353
In the concluding part of the Second Anti-Critique (1910), Max Weber summarizes the substantive
findings of his own contributions to the debate with the historian Felix Rachfahl. In doing so, he uses the response to his relentless critic as an opportunity to articulate once again, in an explicit manner and for both his own benefit and that of the ...
Added: October 4, 2026
Aliev R. T., Якушенкова О. С., Человек 2026 Т. 37 № 5 С. 176–191
This article addresses the epistemological transformations of knowledge about the Other under platform culture. It examines the shift from the communicative experience of presence to a data regime in which otherness is constituted through predictive classification and interface routing. The platform is conceptualized as a system that presents the subject with an already-categorized Other, thereby ...
Added: October 4, 2026
Лессинг Т., Silene Noctiflora, 2026.
Теодор Лессинг (1872–1933) — один из самых пессимистичных философов первой половины XX века. Последователь Фридриха Ницше и Артура Шопенгауэра, он пророчил неизбежную гибель западной цивилизации от себя самой. В своём сочинении «Про́клятая культура», написанном на основе речи, читанной в Обществе друзей индийской мудрости в 1921 году, он с особой экспрессией изложил основные положения своего мировоззрения, ...
Added: October 3, 2026
Dezi A., Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis, 2026.
This book is a metaphysical inquiry into the nature and origin of the manifold. Taking Schelling’s Erlangen lectures of 1820–1821 as its point of departure and hermeneutic horizon, it develops an interpretation of Nomos that transcends its political, juridical, and social determinations. Nomos thereby emerges as the ontological principle of an infinite, variegated multiplicity of ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Sheynov T. G., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 416–431
The article offers a reflection on the Russian translation of Introduction into Politics by the German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt, published by Vladimir Dal’ Publishers in 2025 under its original title What is Politics?. The book presents excerpts from Arendt’s legacy that pertain to her work on the unfinished project Introduction into Politics from the 1950s. ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This collection of papers explores the epic traditions of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, bringing together insights from remarkable scholars. Topics range from the cuneiform epic of Erra to Homeric epics and Greco-Roman literature, shedding light on the role of epic texts in shaping collective identities and understanding ancient societies. The validity of ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Ugleva A. V., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 268–293
This article undertakes a socio-philosophical analysis of a situation in which the place of the Other within the structure of subjective experience is occupied by an algorithmic agent – an entity that simulates understanding yet remains devoid of genuine subjectivity. To investigate this configuration, the author turns to psychiatric practice as a representative case study: ...
Added: September 26, 2026
Malinov A. V., Соловьевские исследования 2026 № 3 С. 131–148
This article explores possible areas of integrating the history of Russian philosophy into the contemporary educational environment, its place in the cultural situation of our time and philosophy as a whole. It is noted that the history of Russian philosophy as an academic discipline began to fully develop only in the second half of the ...
Added: September 25, 2026
Рупова Р. М., Богословский вестник 2023 № № 2 (49) С. 38–52
Поставленный Тертуллианом во II веке вопрос, что может быть общего между Афинами и Иерусалимом, в приложении к нашему времени может звучать так: что может быть об щего между Силиконовой долиной и Иерусалимом? В данном случае Силиконовая до лина — символ современной технотронной цивилизации. Автор статьи строит анало гию, основанную на том, что очевидная в начале ...
Added: September 25, 2026
Merzenina A., Логос 2026 Т. 35 № 2 С. 73–102
The article examines the functioning of digital communication in the era of semiocapitalism (F. Berardi) and hyperrealism (J. Baudrillard), as well as its influence on the psycho-social situation of the modern subject (based on the psychoanalysis of J. Lacan). Obsessive neurosis, aggressiveness and depression are considered by the author not only as the dominant mental ...
Added: September 21, 2026
Merzenina A., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 2 С. 206–242
This article examines the transformation of political theology, or political ontotheology, in the era of late capitalism. The author first analyzes the specifics of nihilism as interpreted by Nietzsche and Heidegger, then moves on to a consideration of epistemological, ethical, and political relativism, the general essence of which consists of a nihilistic rejection of a ...
Added: September 20, 2026
Shipovalova L., Asya A. Filatova, Социология власти 2026 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 224–243
This article examines the integration of large language model based chatbots into educational practices in Russian higher education through the lens of critical theory and curriculum ideologies. Drawing on Ivan Illich’s concept of convivial tools and Jürgen Habermas’s distinction between instrumental and communicative rationality, the authors conceptualize large language models as technologies capable of operating ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., Patria 2026 Т. 3 № 3 С. 12–28
The study is devoted to the identification of the specifics of humanism and mercy as
traditional spiritual and moral values of modern Russia. The special role of these axiological
attitudes, frankly virtuous nature suggests their dominant position. Avoiding discussion about
the interpretation of these categories, an attempt is made to identify the implementation of
virtuous actions, which can be ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Zhukova O., Вопросы философии (Российская Федерация) 2026 № 8 С. 51–64
The article is a critical and philosophical analysis of a new book by the Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksei A. Kara-Murza. His fundamental work “Selected Works on Russian Philosophy, Politics and Culture” (2024) contains articles in the field of philosophy of Russian history, completed by the author over the course of ten years. Essays, ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Моисеев Г. В., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 10 № 3 С. 73–100
This article examines algorithmic power, understood as a form of power based on the collection and analysis of data for the purpose of modelling and pre-emptively shaping possible behavior, through the lens of Michel Foucault’s analytics of power. Drawing on a critical engagement with the concepts of algorithmic governmentality developed by Antoinette Rouvroy and Thomas ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Моисеев Г. В., Гуманитарные исследования в Восточной Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке 2026 № 2 (76) С. 58–68
The article presents a philosophical analysis of the transformation of labor in the context of the spread of AI technologies. Criticizing the notion of AI as an autonomous and neutral technology leading to the replacement of human labor, the author proposes to analyze the social consequences of AI development within the framework of automation processes ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Karpenko I., Человек 2026 Т. 37 № 5 С. 42–58
This article examines the question of agency in artificial intelligence systems. A distinction is proposed between three types of agency: ontological, functional, and ascribed. The central thesis is that functional agency is a genuine rather than metaphorical type, which is grounded through the teleological theory of function and through a critique of the argument from ...
Added: September 16, 2026
Pavlyutkin I., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2025 № 2 С. 252–265
The article discusses the book by sociologist M. Regnerus “On the Future of Christian Marriage”. It presents the results of a comparative sociological study on the attitudes of young Christians to marriage in seven countries, including Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox. On the one hand, the book echoes the results of many other studies discussing the ...
Added: January 18, 2026
Pavlyutkin I., Studia Religiosa Rossica: научный журнал о религии 2025 № 4 С. 137–155
The study of godparenthood, that is, the ties of spiritual kinship, posed a definite challenge for Western social anthropology, since its “discovery” did not fit into the already existing theories of kinship systems.
The first anthropological studies of the institute proceeded from the need to describe its observed effects and functions, consisting in the social integration of local communities, building ...
Added: January 18, 2026
Korenkova M., Человек: образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты 2025 № 3(63) С. 110–121
Abstract. This article examines the biblical dimension and its interpretation in the literary works of Cardinal John Henry Newman, a distinguished 19th-century writer whose profound spiritual experience is reflected throughout his writings. As both a writer and a clergyman, Newman converted from Protestantism to Catholicism midway through his career, a transformation that significantly influenced his ...
Added: December 13, 2025
Lyavdansky A., , in: A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic.: Leiden: Brill, 2026. Ch. 13 P. 365–384.
The purpose of this contribution is to present the corpus of Neo-Aramaic Texts in the New Alphabet in its entirety, summarize what has been done in the field, and demonstrate how the nascent digitized corpus of Christian Urmi in Latinized orthography can contribute to research into this idiom. To this end, several linguistic features are ...
Added: May 1, 2025